Accounts and Onboarding

Figure 3: Siz-word mnemonic passphrase

Account creation within the Tonomy ecosystem is primarily facilitated through the cross-platform mobile application via Tonomy ID. Users select a private username during this process and are assigned a random, unique, and publicly accessible anonymous user ID.

Users are provided with a cryptographically secure six-word mnemonic passphrase for account recovery and security. This passphrase is a randomly generated and easily memorable string and is passed through the secure argon2 key generation algorithm to create an ASIC-resistant, robust security. The algorithm would take every computer working together over 10,000 years to break a single key.