simplewallet allows export of spendkey and viewkey, but not import about aeon-legacy HOT 3 CLOSED

but if she forgets to backup the mnemonic seed, her coins could be lost.

This is not true. The mnemonic seed is just a different representation of the spend secret key whose size is 32 bytes. Although the current official CLI wallet (0.9.14) doesn't allow you to restore a wallet from a spend secret key, you can convert a spend secret key into its corresponding mnemonic seed using a JavaScript-based tool provided in this website (hosted by a Monero Core Team member luigi1111):

1. Paste your spend secret key to the field "2. Hexadecimal Seed".
2. Click "Gen 1."

The Aeon codebase is currently being rebased to the more recent codebase of Monero (pre-release is here), and the new version will have an option --generate-from-keys which allows you to restore a wallet from a spend secret key.

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Thanks stoffu for the link and I'm excited about the rebase! Its duplicative to the rebase obviously but since i had already finished work on it, i just created a pull request to add this functionality into the current legacy code in case there is a desire to add this functionally prior to the rebase release.

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There is a sufficient workaround for the legacy code as well as full support in the rebase so closing this issue and the associated PR.

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