How do we use a mnemonic list of words as a seed (like we have been become accustomed using cryptocurrency wallets) to be able to recover a private key in case it gets lost, accidentally erased, or stuck on a broken device?
This could be useful for e2e encryption between clients: the keys are supposed to be generated on the client, only the public key will be shared with the server.
Users could be regenerating the keys offline when needed, as long as they are able to provide the mnemonic again, obviously to be stored safely and offline.
The mnemonic seed should be long enough to provide a safe amount of entropy.
Some Q&A appear to be very outdated: how can we achieve this in Javascript/Typescript, possibly using maintained libraries?
from How to generate safe RSA keys deterministically using a seed?
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