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Secret Border

A safe Nostr identity generator.

Why use Secret Border?

This tool is an easy and safe way to create your personal identity on Nostr protocol. Using it you can generate a pair of Nostr keys and backup them in a safe way.

What are the security guarantees that Secret Border supply?

• It can be used completely offline.
• Use cryptographically strong pseudo-random number generator (CSPRNG).
• It doesn't save your secret anywhere (unless you request it).
• You can backup your secret in an encrypted file with a password (that you specify).
• Code full open source.
• It can backup secret in a encrypted file using AES256.
• Allow user to add entropy at the generate key process.

Features

• Generate pair of keys randomly
• Show keys
• Not connect externally with whatever
• Export private key to an encrypted file
• Import an encrypted file with a private key
• Enter entropy to complement key generation
• Support for basic key derivation from mnemonic seed phrase - NIP06 ⏳

Building

To build it you will need to have Java 17 and Maven installed on your system.

Now just run:

mvn install
mvn package

Running

Use Java 17 installed on your system to run the JAR file.

You can run it on your terminal/bash:

java -jar target/secret-border.jar