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GetScatter / ScatterWebExtension

Extension that allows you to sign transactions with your private keys securely from within the browser without ever exposing them.
MIT License
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Possibility of retrieving real public key #107

Closed vlad-khramov closed 5 years ago

vlad-khramov commented 6 years ago

We use scatter for login to our site (via getArbitrarySignature). Now workflow looks like (see https://staging.smartz.io/login):

Minuses of this approach that we know only public key of identity, but not real public key from key pairs. So if something happens with identity (accidental removing) user will lost his account.

getArbitrarySignature supports passsing public key from key pairs, but it is not very convinient make user to type his public key during login.

Could you please provide some interface for retrieveing public keys from key pairs with its names?

wayne-prosperworks commented 5 years ago

In our system, we want to user to register their EOS account name with pubic key. It will be really useful if scatter can expose the real public of the account. (scatter.identity.publicKey is not the account's public key).

nsjames commented 5 years ago

Public keys return for accounts in desktop.

Seeing how this extension will be deprecated soon, I'd advise checking out the scatter-js library in this same organization and upgrading to support desktop