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<p>In other crypto wallets you can insert a secret phrase or a key to open the address in other extension wallets. Is this possibly in cardano?</p>
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<p>Yes. It is possible.</p>
<p>As an aside: creating wallets from cardano-cli, you get <code>paymeny.vkey</code> and <code>payment.skey</code> . If you keep the keys safe from the malfunctioning VM, you can use them to recover the wallet from other machines.</p>

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2022-12-23T14:46:56.400Z
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Adam
<p>Seed phrases following the <a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawiki" rel="nofollow noreferrer">bip-39</a> standard do exist for Cardano. However, there is no way to generate a seed phrase from a signing key. Therefore, the private key generated with the cardano-cli cannot be imported into a wallet that uses the seed phase recovery method.</p>
<p>To quote the answer given <a href="https://cardano.stackexchange.com/a/4759/1071">here</a></p>
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<p>Your best bet would likely be to generate a new set of wallets derived from mnemonic instead of a raw master seed (used in cardano-cli).</p>
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james
<p>I'm extremely worried a wallet through cli can be corrupted as i'm using a virtual machine which often crashes and deletes to itself. In other crypto wallets you can insert a secret phrase or a key to open the address in other extension wallets. Is this possibly in cardano?</p>

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2022-07-27T04:03:06.267Z
Please clarify your specific problem or provide additional details to highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it's hard to tell exactly what you're asking.
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Can you open a cardano-cli wallet on nami or daedalus?
# Can you open a cardano-cli wallet on nami or daedalus?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2022-07-25)

I'm extremely worried a wallet through cli can be corrupted as i'm using a virtual machine which often crashes and deletes to itself. In other crypto wallets you can insert a secret phrase or a key to open the address in other extension wallets. Is this possibly in cardano?

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> **username_1**: Please clarify your specific problem or provide additional details to highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it's hard to tell exactly what you're asking.  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2022-12-23. Score: 0

> In other crypto wallets you can insert a secret phrase or a key to open the address in other extension wallets. Is this possibly in cardano?

Yes. It is possible.

As an aside: creating wallets from cardano-cli, you get `paymeny.vkey` and `payment.skey` . If you keep the keys safe from the malfunctioning VM, you can use them to recover the wallet from other machines.


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### Answer by username_3 on 2022-07-26. Score: 0

Seed phrases following the [bip-39](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawiki) standard do exist for Cardano. However, there is no way to generate a seed phrase from a signing key. Therefore, the private key generated with the cardano-cli cannot be imported into a wallet that uses the seed phase recovery method.

To quote the answer given [here](https://cardano.stackexchange.com/a/4759/1071)

> Your best bet would likely be to generate a new set of wallets derived from mnemonic instead of a raw master seed (used in cardano-cli).


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