Oddbean new post about login | logout Pls to help explain in humanspeak what is the use case and benefit of NIP-49? #asknostr cc @Mazin @KernelKind
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It's an ecrypted zip file with your keys inside. With a good password, you can move the zip around without revealing your keys. Picture this: Person downloads Damus, creates an account and wants to transfer the key to their desktop. They can create an encrypted zip, email to themselves, bring that file to a less safe desktop and use it to log into a Nostr extensions. If they did that with just the nsec, all of the email servers would have had access to the key.
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/49.md
I read the NIP. In human speak: what is the motivation and use case?
You want to copy your nsec and paste it somewhere, or store somewhere, if it's plaintext nsec then one mistake and it's pasted publicly. This nip allows to get nsec in an encrypted form, so that even if ncryptsec1... leaks, noone can decrypt it without password. When you try to import it into other app if it supports nip49 it will ask for password and decrypt it.