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what nostr clients use seed phrases for login? prob good for noobs to use those clients to generate their key pair. is there a reason why every client doesn't use seed phrases?

https://github.com/nbd-wtf/nostr-tools/blob/master/nip06.ts

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JeffG 1y ago

I agree that noobs should definitely be doing identity generation with seeds rather than just bare keys. Makes derivation possible in the future as well.

I think the only reason it's not more common is that is wasn't common in early clients and newer clients have built from there. 🤷‍♂️

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NotBiebs and 69 others 1y ago

yeah i like how nostr:npub1h0uj825jgcr9lzxyp37ehasuenq070707pj63je07n8mkcsg3u0qnsrwx8 makes use of derivation.

being able to add a passphrase when creating an account is nice too.

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ChipTuner 1y ago

But noobs will become advanced users eventually

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NotBiebs and 69 others 1y ago

i said noobs only because they don't have a key pair yet. if i could go back in time, i'd prefer to use a seed phrase + passphrase. that way you can keep the seed phrase and passphrase separately.