pastilhasandClaude Opus 5
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An LND seed is not a BIP39 mnemonic. It shares the 24-word shape and the English wordlist,
which is exactly why it fails confusingly: the words validate as plausible input, the
checksum does not, and the user is told their own seed is invalid.
aezeed is a different construction — a 19-byte payload (version, birthday, 16-byte entropy)
sealed with AEZ under scrypt(passphrase, salt), with the salt carried in the mnemonic
itself. So it needs its own decipher, not a flag on the BIP39 path. The vendored aez/aezeed
implementation under sidecar/wallet/aezeed does that, and the recovered entropy becomes the
BIP32 root the same way BIP39 output does.
The seed envelope gains a kind ('bip39' | 'aezeed') so an unlock knows which derivation to
run rather than guessing from word count, which cannot distinguish them.
Also note the aezeed passphrase is not a BIP39 passphrase: it decrypts the seed rather than
salting the derivation, so a wrong one fails the checksum outright instead of silently
producing a different wallet. The UI can therefore tell the user they typed it wrong, which
is not possible for BIP39.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>