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		k__ on Feb 4, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introducing the Keybase filesystem Does it scale well? I mean, if I want to do some Torrent like P2P stuff, I need to... - gather public keys of all the people who want to download from me - encrypt every chunk for every person separately

mayank on Feb 4, 2016 [–]

The second part is usually handled by encrypting a randomly chosen symmetric cipher key using each public key, and then encrypting the file with a symmetric cipher. And I believe keybase was founded to tackle the first problem.

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