user1307: Brainwallet is a well-known tool that lets you generate an address from a passphrase. I think Brainwallet just performs a single SHA256 hash on the passphrase to get the 256-bit private key of the address.
Is there a BIP-standard formulated for this calculation?
Now that HD wallets are making there way to become mainstream, I think it is useful to have a standard to generate an HD wallet from a passphrase. Electrum and CarbonWallet seem to already have implemented HD wallet generation from passphrase and they are using 100,000 rounds of SHA256, which sounds already a much safer process than a single round.
The original BIP0032 that defines HD wallets doesn't define a way to generate them from passphrases (and it shouldn't), so maybe it is a good idea to make a separate BIP for this purpose if it does not already exists.
I want to be able to switch between wallet apps just taking my master key with me. Or for HD wallets, f.e. use a different wallet for watching (using the public root key) than for signing.

user2306: Yes, BIP39 is one such way.
Electrum has a different, mutually incompatible way.

1307: <p>Brainwallet is a well-known tool that lets you generate an address from a passphrase. I think Brainwallet just performs a <a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Brainwallet" rel="nofollow">single SHA256 hash</a> on the passphrase to get the 256-bit private key of the address.</p>

<p>Is there a BIP-standard formulated for this calculation?</p>

<p>Now that HD wallets are making there way to become mainstream, I think it is useful to have a standard to generate an HD wallet from a passphrase. Electrum and CarbonWallet seem to already have implemented HD wallet generation from passphrase and they are using <a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Deterministic_wallet#Type_2_hierarchical_deterministic_wallet" rel="nofollow">100,000 rounds of SHA256</a>, which sounds already a much safer process than a single round.</p>

<p>The original BIP0032 that defines HD wallets doesn't define a way to generate them from passphrases (and it shouldn't), so maybe it is a good idea to make a separate BIP for this purpose if it does not already exists.</p>

<p>I want to be able to switch between wallet apps just taking my master key with me. Or for HD wallets, f.e. use a different wallet for watching (using the public root key) than for signing.</p>
 2306: <p>Yes, <a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawiki" rel="nofollow">BIP39</a> is one such way.</p>

<p>Electrum has a different, mutually incompatible way.</p>
