keybase / keybase/client

Confusing user experience while tracking someone with an incomplete(?) proof

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Description

Invited a friend, they accepted and set up keys and a few proofs. Tried to track from command-line. Got a scary message that their twitter verification failed (though the other proofs succeeded). Visiting their keybase.io profile, I saw nothing about a twitter identity for the person.

Speculating, I expect that this was because they had started to verify their twitter, but hadn't yet posted a proof.

I followed them anyway, but I assume that that means that I accepted the twitter sig that had not actually been posted to Twitter.

As a user, I would expect that tracking my friend would have shown me only the proofs they had completed, and match the identities I would see on their profile on keybase.io.

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Research direction

Start by reproducing the behavior through command-line tracking for a user with an incomplete Twitter proof, then compare the result with that user's keybase.io profile. Done means incomplete proofs are not presented as verified and tracking shows the same identities as the profile.

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Assessment

Tech stack
go
Domain
cli, security
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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