Is anyone building a social key recovery tool for Nostr? 🔑🛟

It seems like a critical missing component.

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🤔 a good idea

What is a social key?

Social key recovery: A way to reconstruct a lost nsec via a quorum of friends.

Does #Bitcoin have a social key recovery?

Some wallets have implemented this feature using key sharding and other methods.

Seems like one could use the Shamir’s Secret Sharing algorithm to extend sharping to nostr keys and share them amongst trusted contacts in a similar manner as those wallets.

*sharding

Multi-sig is similar but not exactly the same.

Yes, Google, IBM, and China are building quantum computers.

Hey we’re not building one but your question here (and nostr:npub1xzrkzsrnr83vn7h0udq6tnapwpswy5equlrtkn3nu0e0anlmzynqne0qap prodding me lol) has prompted me to post the draft proposal for Excalibur we’ve had sort of cooking in the background for a while. I agree- this is extremely important!

Let us know what you think of this:

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Agreed this is a very important feature. And the ability to use "sub" keys so users can revoke keys which become compromised.