This would be so dope
I'd love to be able to use Amber from nostr:nprofile1qqs827g8dkd07zjvlhh60csytujgd3l9mz7x807xk3fewge7rwlukxgpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hsz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjme0qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uzk8xwq or the upcoming Frostr from nostr:nprofile1qqspwut66nfqu2jztndq5gv4vf9q5jnncnmfwhckk9vnljrl53hj6kqppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvh8w6tw9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tc0rh42p in a similar fashion to how I use authenticator apps now. When I'm on my computer and I attempt to sign into a particular application or website, I'm prompted to approve the action on my mobile device. This is my Nostr authentication dream. It's easy to use, keeps our private keys safe, and is familiar to most people.
Discussion
This all sounds possible to me based on what Zach has been demoing, right? We just need the push notification or the app on the mobile device to be always listening (and consuming battery) listening to your "authentication" relay or another way?
push notifications might be able to work, not sure if network comms can happen in the notification plugin process. It doesn't always trigger for us nostr:npub13v47pg9dxjq96an8jfev9znhm0k7ntwtlh9y335paj9kyjsjpznqzzl3l8
The nice thing about the frostr approach is that you can have virtually infinite customization in terms of your preferred authentication methods. But the downside is that it’s going to be awhile until we can get a quorum of clients to start adopting it
We would just need a couple major ones to adopt it and then others follow. All features will be replicated if they're good. It just needs to be stable and actually work. There would be no need to not do it if the experience was good. Again, it has to be right. Eventually everyone would use it if they want users to use their apps. Right now nothing that we have is roll your face across the keyboard easy, so we're left with applications using a wide variety of methods, because none of them are clearly a winner in this space.
The nice thing about the frostr approach is that you can have virtually infinite customization in terms of your preferred authentication methods. But the downside is that it’s going to be awhile until we can get a quorum of clients to start adopting it