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fix(key-wallet): accept non-English BIP-39 mnemonics on all parse paths - #980

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Problem

mnemonic_validate accepts all 10 BIP-39 languages, but every parse path hardcoded Language::English:

  • mnemonic_to_seed (key-wallet-ffi)
  • wallet_create_from_mnemonic / wallet_create_from_mnemonic_with_options (key-wallet-ffi)
  • the four *_derive_*_from_mnemonic exports in account_derivation.rs (key-wallet-ffi)
  • WalletManager::create_wallet_from_mnemonic / create_wallet_from_mnemonic_return_serialized_bytes (key-wallet-manager) — which also feed the three wallet_manager_add_wallet_from_mnemonic* FFI exports and the dash-spv binary
  • impl FromStr for Mnemonic (key-wallet)

A valid French/Spanish/… phrase validated and then failed seed derivation and wallet creation. This shipped in Dash Wallet iOS 9.0.0 and broke wallet recovery, Add Wallet, and the upgrade-time key migration for every non-English mnemonic — including wallets the old DashSync-era app itself generated on non-English-locale devices. (rs-platform-wallet carries its own parse_mnemonic_any_language workaround for the same gap; with this fix upstream it can eventually drop it.)

Fix

  • New Mnemonic::from_phrase_in_any_language(phrase) in key-wallet: a deterministic per-language walk in Language::ALL order (English first) — the same semantics mnemonic_validate already had. Deliberately not bip39's autodetecting Mnemonic::parse, whose language_of fails with AmbiguousLanguages when every word is shared across wordlists. First-match is deterministic, and since BIP-39 seeds are PBKDF2 over the phrase text itself, a hypothetical cross-language full-phrase collision could only affect language reporting, never the derived seed.
  • Language::ALL (the previously private ALL_LANGUAGES const, now a public associated const) and a Mnemonic::language() accessor; the four account_derivation exports detect the language and pass it to the derivation helpers.
  • All the call sites above switched to the new parse. mnemonic_validate now shares the same parse call, so validate ⇔ parse is one code path and cannot diverge again. The bincode Decode/BorrowDecode impls use the same walk (they previously used bip39 autodetect under a comment claiming "default to English").
  • FFI signatures unchanged — no new extern fns. Doc comments updated (the "Uses the English wordlist" claims) and key-wallet-ffi/FFI_API.md regenerated.

Behavior notes

  • Strictly widening: English is tried first, so English phrases parse byte-identically to before.
  • Error code unchanged (InvalidMnemonic). The no-match message is now uniformly Invalid mnemonic: does not match any supported language (byte-identical to what mnemonic_validate already produced). One visible difference: an English phrase with a typo previously got bip39's specific diagnostic ("unknown word", "bad word count") from the parse paths; it now gets the generic no-match message. Callers that string-match error messages would be affected; error codes are not.

Testing

All new non-English tests fail without the fix — e.g. the symmetry test dies at ChineseSimplified: to_seed must accept a validated phrase, and the French reference-vector test at French phrase must derive a seed (verified by stashing the source changes and running the new tests against the unfixed code).

  • key-wallet: 10-language from_phrase_in_any_language round trip (detected language, phrase, and seed all match the language-tagged parse); NFC-typed French input derives the same seed as the NFKD form; invalid/empty/bad-checksum rejection with the pinned message; English-first ordering contract; language() accessor across all 10 languages; FromStr on a French phrase; bincode round trip of a French mnemonic.
  • key-wallet-ffi: mnemonic_validatemnemonic_to_seedwallet_create_from_mnemonic symmetry across all 10 languages; a French reference vector whose expected 64-byte seed was computed independently of this codebase (python hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac('sha512', NFKD(phrase), b"mnemonic", 2048)); French+Spanish wallet creation; BLS/EdDSA provider keys derived *_from_mnemonic match *_from_seed for a French phrase; the secp helpers now get past the parse (standard-account refusal is InvalidInput, no longer InvalidMnemonic). All new FFI tests free every returned pointer (ASAN job).
  • key-wallet-manager: French wallet creation; French serialized-bytes round trip through import_wallet_from_bytes (exercises the bincode decode path end-to-end).
  • Suites: cargo test -p key-wallet -p key-wallet-ffi -p key-wallet-manager --all-features green (669 / 244 / all-suites); cargo clippy on the three crates --all-features --all-targets clean; cargo fmt --all clean; contrib/verify_ffi.py clean after the committed FFI_API.md regen (dash-spv-ffi/FFI_API.md untouched); RUSTDOCFLAGS=-D warnings cargo doc clean; cargo check --workspace --all-features on 1.95 and cargo +1.89 check (MSRV) on the three crates clean.

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  • New Features

    • Added automatic detection for all supported BIP-39 mnemonic languages.
    • Wallet creation, validation, seed conversion, and account key derivation now accept non-English phrases.
    • Added mnemonic language detection for multilingual wallet workflows.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Standardized mnemonic parsing across wallet and key management operations.
    • Improved multilingual wallet serialization and re-import across supported networks.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for French, Spanish, and other supported BIP-39 languages, including validation, derivation, wallet creation, and serialization.

llbartekll and others added 2 commits August 22, 2026 12:36
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Mnemonic parsing was English-only on every path even though validation
accepts all 10 supported wordlists, so a valid French/Spanish/... phrase
validated and then failed to parse. Add the missing primitive and route
the crate's own parse paths through it:

- Mnemonic::from_phrase_in_any_language: deterministic per-language walk
  in Language::ALL order (English first). Deliberately not bip39's
  autodetecting parse, whose language_of fails with AmbiguousLanguages
  when every word is shared across wordlists; first-match is
  deterministic and cannot change the derived seed (BIP-39 seeds are
  PBKDF2 over the phrase text, not the resolved language).
- Language::ALL: the previously private ALL_LANGUAGES const, promoted to
  a public associated const so FFI callers stop duplicating the list.
- Mnemonic::language() accessor + the reverse bip39->key-wallet Language
  conversion it needs.
- FromStr and the bincode Decode/BorrowDecode impls now use the same
  walk (decode previously used bip39 autodetect; FromStr was
  English-only). Strictly widening: English phrases parse identically.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…emonic parse paths

mnemonic_validate accepts all 10 BIP-39 languages, but every parse path
hardcoded Language::English — a valid French/Spanish/... phrase validated
and then failed seed derivation and wallet creation. This shipped in
Dash Wallet iOS 9.0.0 and broke recovery and migration of non-English
wallets.

- mnemonic_to_seed, wallet_create_from_mnemonic(_with_options), and both
  WalletManager::create_wallet_from_mnemonic* now parse with
  Mnemonic::from_phrase_in_any_language (which also covers the three
  wallet_manager FFI exports and the dash-spv binary that delegate here).
- The four account_derivation *_from_mnemonic exports detect the
  phrase's language and pass it to the derivation helpers.
- mnemonic_validate shares the same parse call, so validate and parse
  are one code path and cannot diverge again; its inline language array
  is replaced by Language::ALL's walk.
- FFI signatures unchanged; doc comments updated (the 'Uses the English
  wordlist' claims) and FFI_API.md regenerated.

New tests fail without the fix: the validate=>to_seed=>wallet_create
symmetry test across all 10 languages, a French reference vector with an
independently computed PBKDF2 seed, from-mnemonic vs from-seed provider
key parity on a French phrase (bls/eddsa), and French wallet creation +
serialized round trip in key-wallet-manager.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The change adds deterministic automatic detection for all supported BIP-39 languages. Key-wallet, wallet manager, and FFI mnemonic validation, seed conversion, wallet creation, account derivation, serialization, and tests now support multilingual phrases.

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Multilingual mnemonic support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Core multilingual mnemonic parsing
key-wallet/src/mnemonic.rs
Adds centralized language definitions, deterministic any-language parsing, language access, multilingual decoding, and coverage for normalization, validation, FromStr, and serialization.
Wallet manager multilingual creation
key-wallet-manager/src/lib.rs, key-wallet-manager/tests/*
Wallet creation and serialized-wallet creation detect supported mnemonic languages. Integration tests cover French wallet creation and serialization on Mainnet and Testnet.
FFI mnemonic and wallet entry points
key-wallet-ffi/src/mnemonic.rs, key-wallet-ffi/src/wallet.rs, key-wallet-ffi/src/*_tests.rs, key-wallet-ffi/FFI_API.md
FFI validation, seed conversion, and wallet creation use multilingual parsing. Documentation and tests cover supported languages and French seed reference data.
FFI account derivation from multilingual mnemonics
key-wallet-ffi/src/account_derivation.rs, key-wallet-ffi/src/account_derivation_tests.rs
BLS, EdDSA, extended private-key, and private-key derivation detect the mnemonic language before key derivation. Tests verify non-English mnemonic handling.

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This change broadens mnemonic parsing to support all validated BIP-39 languages across wallet creation, recovery, derivation, and serialization paths while preserving English behavior; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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  participant FFIClient
  participant MnemonicFFI
  participant MnemonicAPI
  participant WalletManager
  FFIClient->>MnemonicFFI: validate or convert mnemonic
  MnemonicFFI->>MnemonicAPI: parse in any supported language
  MnemonicAPI-->>MnemonicFFI: parsed mnemonic or error
  FFIClient->>WalletManager: create wallet from mnemonic
  WalletManager->>MnemonicAPI: parse in any supported language
  MnemonicAPI-->>WalletManager: parsed mnemonic or invalid-mnemonic error
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❌ Patch coverage is 83.33333% with 19 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
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…emonic tests

Parameterize the French-mnemonic wallet creation and serialized round-trip
tests over Network::Mainnet and Network::Testnet, per the repo guideline to
test both network configurations (CodeRabbit review).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Pin fix/mnemonic-any-language-173ffac: the cherry-pick of
dashpay/rust-dashcore#980 onto 173ffac0, the rev v4.2-dev already pins.
This lands the BIP-39 fix without crossing the breaking key-wallet
sweep changes (rust-dashcore #961/#962/#966/#969) that #4406 adapts
platform to; once #4406 bumps onto rust-dashcore dev proper, the pin
rejoins dev and this branch can be deleted.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
PastaPastaPasta added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 22, 2026
Follow-up to #980, which fixed non-English mnemonic parsing by adding from_phrase_in_any_language next to the English-tagged from_phrase. Two parse paths is how the original bug happened: validation accepted every wordlist while key-material parses stayed English-only. Collapse them: Mnemonic::from_phrase(phrase) IS the auto-detecting parse (English first, keeping its diagnostics when nothing matches), Mnemonic::validate(phrase) is defined as from_phrase(phrase).is_ok(), and Language remains an input only for generation and wordlist access. The derive_from_mnemonic_*_at trait methods drop their language parameter and the FFI account-derivation exports no longer detect-then-pass a language.

BREAKING: Mnemonic::from_phrase and Mnemonic::validate lose their language parameter; from_phrase_in_any_language is folded into from_phrase; AccountDerivation::derive_from_mnemonic_{extended_xpriv,private_key}_at lose their language parameter. Runtime behavior is unchanged from #980 except error text for fully invalid phrases, which now embeds the English diagnostics.

Adds two invariants #980's tests don't pin: a phrase checksum-valid under BOTH Chinese wordlists asserting the seed equals the independently computed sentence-PBKDF2 (first-match auto-detection can never change a seed), and a passphrase reference vector for a non-English phrase.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
xdustinface pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 23, 2026
…ath (#981)

Follow-up to #980, which fixed non-English mnemonic parsing by adding from_phrase_in_any_language next to the English-tagged from_phrase. Two parse paths is how the original bug happened: validation accepted every wordlist while key-material parses stayed English-only. Collapse them: Mnemonic::from_phrase(phrase) IS the auto-detecting parse (English first, keeping its diagnostics when nothing matches), Mnemonic::validate(phrase) is defined as from_phrase(phrase).is_ok(), and Language remains an input only for generation and wordlist access. The derive_from_mnemonic_*_at trait methods drop their language parameter and the FFI account-derivation exports no longer detect-then-pass a language.

BREAKING: Mnemonic::from_phrase and Mnemonic::validate lose their language parameter; from_phrase_in_any_language is folded into from_phrase; AccountDerivation::derive_from_mnemonic_{extended_xpriv,private_key}_at lose their language parameter. Runtime behavior is unchanged from #980 except error text for fully invalid phrases, which now embeds the English diagnostics.

Adds two invariants #980's tests don't pin: a phrase checksum-valid under BOTH Chinese wordlists asserting the seed equals the independently computed sentence-PBKDF2 (first-match auto-detection can never change a seed), and a passphrase reference vector for a non-English phrase.

Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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