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11 sats \ 4 replies \ @nerd2ninja 2 Aug 2022 \ on: Bitcoin wallets could do so much more bitcoin
A seed phrase is a word based representation of a number (the private key) of a digital signature algorithm. This algorithm is not good for encrypting messages and would not redeem a PGP key (which is an entirely different algorithm.)
With all due respect, you have no idea what you are talking about. Modern encryption is almost all hybrid methods. Of course it is possible to derive and exchange a symmetric key from any asymmetric key pair for AES or whatever.
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Okay, I genuinely thought they were incompatible, but its still a bad idea.
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The software to convert that type of entropy into those items simply isn’t written yet