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cossacklabs / themis

Easy to use cryptographic framework for data protection: secure messaging with forward secrecy and secure data storage. Has unified APIs across 14 platforms.
https://www.cossacklabs.com/themis
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Ability to provide entropy when generating a keypair #892

Closed steida closed 5 months ago

steida commented 2 years ago

BIP85 describes a way how entropy can be derived deterministically from a BIP32 root key, for example, a BIP39 mnemonic (24 words) commonly used in cryptocurrency wallets.

The ability to derive a keypair directly from the mnemonic would improve Themis DX I suppose.

vixentael commented 2 years ago

thank you @steida , definitely smth to consider

steida commented 2 years ago

@vixentael ETA, please?

vixentael commented 2 years ago

@steida no ETA rn, as it's not one of the features users ask for. it's moved to a backlog to consider.

dentropy commented 5 months ago

@steida I am pretty sure you can just generate your own keys using another library like