Wouldn’t it increase security significantly to tie private keys to public keys in recovery scenarios…? let me explain…

Apologies in advance for my poor command of Ethereum terminology.

My understanding is that right now, anyone can randomly enter a bunch of the the 24 word recovery phrase combinations to try and hack into an ETH wallet (and yes, I understand how unlikely it is you will hit one but thats not my point).

Wouldn’t it be much more secure to require the public key first, and then enter the private key/24 word phrase to unlock it? That would be exponentially harder, no?

This is what I’ve never understood about ETH keys. I get that its essentially impossible to guess a private key.. but why not take it a step further by requiring the equivalent of a specific username first (in the ETH use case this would be the public key) and then the password/recovery code (the private key in the ETH use case)?

Does this make sense? Maybe theres something I’m not understanding about Ethereum’s infrastructure that makes this impossible. I’d love an explanation if one of you smarty-pants’ has one.