End user created an account with spouses email, is there a way to delete account?

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We have a user who created an account using their spouses email on accident. Is there anyway to delete the users account so that they can reuse this email address with a new account? This is obviously a very inconvenient situation as the spouse has to provide access to their email every time they want to log in.

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@payments Thanks for reaching out.

Is this for the Web3Auth Dashboard or is it your Dapp?

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our application, we use web3auth as a verifer for our own native wallet login. @vjgee

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@vjgee we aren’t using the plug and play version, it is possible to delete an account with that version?

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No, you can’t delete a web3auth account for the following reasons:

  • Web3Auth works on Cryptography primitives (Shamir secret sharing) and no private key data is being stored on the backend.
  • All the reconstruction happens on the front end.

Looking at the above two properties we can conclude that, given the same inputs (shares/access factors), even in an offline manner the output will be the same because of the cryptographic algorithms being used. So you will always be able to access your account and there is no way to delete your Web3Auth account.

You can read more about how Web3Auth works here:-

https://web3auth.io/docs/overview/key-management/technical-architecture/

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