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Your Nostr private key (nsec…) are secret and unlock access to anything and everything. This key is used to sign events / messages that cryptographically proves that they came from you. You do not want to paste your private key into random apps, especially if they are malicious and steal your private key, or are poorly coded and have bugs that cause you to sign malformed data.
A Nostr signer app allows you to keep your private key stored in exactly one safe and secure place. If you want to use a Nostr client without pasting your raw private key, the client must communicate with the signer in order for it to sign any event or encrypt/decrypt direct messages, etc.
Amber is the only native signer app that exists on Android (NIP-55). No native signer apps exist on iOS — that’s what I’m building. Note that I’m not talking about browser extensions (NIP-07) like Nostore which do work in the same way that I described but only for web clients accessed from the browser.
A Nostr signer app allows you to keep your private key stored in exactly one safe and secure place. If you want to use a Nostr client without pasting your raw private key, the client must communicate with the signer in order for it to sign any event or encrypt/decrypt direct messages, etc.
Amber is the only native signer app that exists on Android (NIP-55). No native signer apps exist on iOS — that’s what I’m building. Note that I’m not talking about browser extensions (NIP-07) like Nostore which do work in the same way that I described but only for web clients accessed from the browser.