I really think offering sharded key storage/recovery is an important feature to consider for newcomers. These people are going to lose their keys en masse.

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I’ve been mentally trying to come up with some form of username/password scheme. But will probably have to be sometime next year I can try working on something like that.

I've been working on an addon for e-commerce platforms where merchants will be able to hold a key shard for customers who convert their accounts to Nostr and choose to enable recovery. I've definitely found it tricky for a reliable/secure solution that will work across different platforms.

UPlanet is generating such "Trust Tier" keys using libsodium (salt/pepper) + ssss (2/3) key split

This junction allows 3 x 1/3 relational web of trust between user, admin and software. Then user only needs 1/3 of its key and benefit from "key delegation for distributed computation" run by ipfs swarm relays...