> Moxie and I have a close professional relationship but I'm not sure what bearing that has on asking for the code of Keybase's server to be open-sourced.
You have a professional relationship with the founder of one of their competitors. It's appropriate in those cases to note that you have a bias. I realize you don't think you have a bias, but that's the whole point.
> If you want trust, you have to be open source.
That's such a confusing statement, and a particularly misleading one coming from someone that works for a crpyto company.
The whole point of end to end crypto is that you don't need to trust the server.
> I honestly have no idea why this is even controversial :/.
That's the core of the problem. You have a professional relationship with the founder of Signal. If you comment on a thread about Signal, or it's competitors, we shouldn't have to click the link to your site to find that out.
I see. I will include that disclaimer in all threads I comment on about Signal in the future. Thanks for explaining this to me.
I've been a fan of Signal since it was RedPhone and TextSecure and my professional relationship with Moxie is quite recent in the scheme of watching the rise of his projects. I apologize if my lack of awareness was offensive, it was unintended.
Edit: Just to be clear, I don't think you need to have the server open-sourced to trust the end to end encryption of the messages, but that's just one part of the overall trust model.
I don't think any kind of disclaimer was necessary. Your point about the Keybase server being closed-source has nothing to do with Signal and is completely valid no matter what competing interests you may have.
You have a professional relationship with the founder of one of their competitors. It's appropriate in those cases to note that you have a bias. I realize you don't think you have a bias, but that's the whole point.
> If you want trust, you have to be open source.
That's such a confusing statement, and a particularly misleading one coming from someone that works for a crpyto company.
The whole point of end to end crypto is that you don't need to trust the server.
> I honestly have no idea why this is even controversial :/.
That's the core of the problem. You have a professional relationship with the founder of Signal. If you comment on a thread about Signal, or it's competitors, we shouldn't have to click the link to your site to find that out.
Think of it as building trust...