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We're not reinventing any cryptography here - the goal is a simple way to look up and trust keys, based on known public identities. from keybase.io

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I assume that he means they are reinventing keyservers (e.g. http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/, and the web of trust for verifying authenticity of public keys), not the crypto itself.

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