Jeff Moss on Nostr: So I’m looking into #Nostr and I’m trying to understand the identity generation ...
So I’m looking into #Nostr and I’m trying to understand the identity generation and private key protection and I found this guide:
https://orangepill.dev/nostr-guides/guide-nostr-key-generation-and-management/
Basically they suggest you create your private key using OpenSSL locally to create a 32 hex character secret. Then you have to convert that into bech32 encoded key. Choose your option:
- Install a random 3rd party Docker and give it my secret and it will spit out the bech32 encoding.
- Install python and pip install some 3rd party tools.
- Install gcc or g++ and clone a 3rd party repository to generate PoW key and convert that.
- “Generate a Nostr private key from Bitcoin BIP-85 deterministic entropy derived seed.”
That’s before the conversations about loading your secret key into a 3rd party browser plugin.
Am I thinking about Nostr correctly or is there something I’m missing?
https://orangepill.dev/nostr-guides/guide-nostr-key-generation-and-management/
Basically they suggest you create your private key using OpenSSL locally to create a 32 hex character secret. Then you have to convert that into bech32 encoded key. Choose your option:
- Install a random 3rd party Docker and give it my secret and it will spit out the bech32 encoding.
- Install python and pip install some 3rd party tools.
- Install gcc or g++ and clone a 3rd party repository to generate PoW key and convert that.
- “Generate a Nostr private key from Bitcoin BIP-85 deterministic entropy derived seed.”
That’s before the conversations about loading your secret key into a 3rd party browser plugin.
Am I thinking about Nostr correctly or is there something I’m missing?