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It's annoying to copy your nsec from your phone to the browser's extension on a computer.

What would you prefer?

1. get the desktop to turn on the camera to scan an app-generated QR code with the nsec?

2. find a way to represent the nsec as a list of words so that people can easily write them from one device to another.

Any other ideas?
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The Daniel 🖖 2y ago

QR may be the simplest but I worry it will encourage people to take a screenshot. On iOS I can copy and paste using iCloud.

What if Amethyst let you extract the key but protected by a passphrase you had to enter on the desktop client?

Would this require a new NIP?

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The Daniel 🖖 2y ago

nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft Is this one of your 46 ideas?

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PABLOF7z 2y ago

Nope. My idea is making remote signing as easy and self-sovereign as possible which makes this kind of problem obsolete.

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Vitor Pamplona 2y ago

Remote signing works. But remote decryption doesn't. There are too many things to decrypt in a single screen. Making a decrypt call for each message in a DM chat screen takes a long time.

We have been discussing this on https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/746. Where the idea is to not have a decryption call on NIP-46 but a shared-key assembly call. Client can call it once and with a single key decrypt/encrypt all messages locally.