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Where is the software that snort.social uses to generate a hex private key?
43 sats \ 2 comments \ @denationalized 2 Mar 2024 nostr

When you sign up with

[snort.social][1]

they show you the mnemonic seed, and the corresponding public keys as well as one private key that starts with nsec. But what about the

[hexadecimal private key][2]

? Why are they hiding it from their user? How might I generate it given my mnemonic phrase? Where is the software that snort.social uses to generate a private key? I mean where is it published, I don't mean the location of their servers. I would like to generate the keys myself with such software just to make sure that the keys are correct.

[1]: https://snort.social

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/nostr/comments/y7hhgz/how_do_i_generate_the_keys_locally/

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @denationalized OP 2 Mar 2024
A tool you might be looking for?

Thanks. I think I might decide to go for this one https://github.com/jaonoctus/nip06-cli as it may have a lighter interface (written by the same author). Or as I tend to avoid installing too much JavaScript software I may try https://github.com/darosior/python-bip32 as I already use Python's

[mnemonic module][1]

for generating the mnemonic phrase needed for my lightning wallet. Is binary seed described in NIP-06 the same as what is called

[entropy here][1]

?

[1]: https://github.com/trezor/python-mnemonic

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