How is the package not rejected Seed phrase greater than 24 words ?

[nabeel99]

If I understand correctly near used bip39 standard for seed phrases if. so, the max number of words allowed is 24, but from my testing seed phrases with words more than 24 get converted into keypairs ? am confused if there is something I don't understand or is this a bug ? if not what does the algorithm do when encountered with more than 24 words ?

[frol]

@nabeel99 Well, near-seed-phrase package is extremely thin wrapper, so you can actually inspect the whole implementation here:

near-seed-phrase/index.js

Lines 14 to 21 in 3e08dc3

	const parseSeedPhrase = (seedPhrase, derivationPath) => {
	const seed = bip39.mnemonicToSeed(normalizeSeedPhrase(seedPhrase))
	const { key } = derivePath(derivationPath || KEY_DERIVATION_PATH, seed.toString('hex'))
	const keyPair = nacl.sign.keyPair.fromSeed(key)
	const publicKey = 'ed25519:' + bs58.encode(Buffer.from(keyPair.publicKey))
	const secretKey = 'ed25519:' + bs58.encode(Buffer.from(keyPair.secretKey))
	return { seedPhrase, secretKey, publicKey }
	}