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When I have an important PDF to store, like my tax returns or a contract,
I prefer to store it in git rather than something like Dropbox, Google Drive or iCloud. 
 There’s the warm, fuzzy feeling I get when enacting the add / commit / push 
ritual, one of tranquility, permanence and order. I am hermetically
sealing my document in a robust time capsule. Banish the thought, the…
How do you package data before feeding it into a cryptographic algorithm, like
Sign, Encrypt, MAC or Hash? This question has lingered for decades
without a sufficient solution.
There are at least two important problems to solve. First,
the encoding ought to produce canonical outputs,
as systems like Bitcoin have struggled when
two different encodings decode to the same…
TL;DR: FOKS’s end-to-end encrypted KV store is a simple, secure way to manage API keys for AI agents 
 AI agents need API keys. Most of those keys end up in .env and .json files.
They get committed to repos, shared over Slack, and live long,
happy plaintext lives on shared servers. Cloud secret managers (AWS, GCP, etc.) might help but feel too
heavyweight and corporate for…

 TL;DR: FOKS is like Keybase, but fully open-source and federated, with SSO and YubiKey support. 
 When we launched Keybase over 11 years ago,
we read a lot of good, well-informed feedback. We folded some
but not all of these suggestions into Keybase. Most important, you convinced us
that passwords are not a good long-term strategy for protecting
secret key material. As a…