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Add method for deriving HMAC keys from the private key.
I ran into an issue where I want to derive child-keys from the parent private key, but there is currently no way to do this with the current spec. I propose adding a `window.nostr.getDerivedKey(key: string): string` method to the spec, which is a simple HMAC method using the private key and a user supplied key. HMAC has wide-spread support in the WebCrypto spec, and is easy to implement. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SubtleCrypto Here is some reference code for performing a simple HMAC operation using WebCrypto API: ```ts async function hmac ( // Perform an HMAC signing operation. key : Uint8Array, data : Uint8Array, fmt : string = 'SHA-256' ) : Promise<Uint8Array> { const cryptoKey = await importKey(key, fmt) return crypto.subtle .sign('HMAC', cryptoKey, data) .then((buffer) => new Uint8Array(buffer)) } async function importKey ( // Create a CryptoKey from the // supplied key and format string. key : Uint8Array, fmt : string = 'SHA-256' ) : Promise<CryptoKey> { const config = { name: 'HMAC', hash: fmt } return crypto.subtle.importKey( 'raw', key, config, false, ['sign', 'verify'] ) } ```
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async window.nostr.getPublicKey(): string // returns a public key as hex
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async window.nostr.getDerivedKey(key: string): string // returns a key derived from hmac(key, prvkey).
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async window.nostr.signEvent(event: Event): Event // takes an event object, adds `id`, `pubkey` and `sig` and returns it
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