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+import createHash = require('create-hash');
+import { pbkdf2 as pbkdf2Async, pbkdf2Sync as pbkdf2 } from 'pbkdf2';
+import randomBytes = require('randombytes');
+
+// use unorm until String.prototype.normalize gets better browser support
+import unorm = require('unorm');
+
+// import CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED_WORDLIST from '../wordlists/chinese_simplified.json';
+import CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED_WORDLIST = require('../wordlists/chinese_simplified.json');
+import CHINESE_TRADITIONAL_WORDLIST = require('../wordlists/chinese_traditional.json');
+import ENGLISH_WORDLIST = require('../wordlists/english.json');
+import FRENCH_WORDLIST = require('../wordlists/french.json');
+import ITALIAN_WORDLIST = require('../wordlists/italian.json');
+import JAPANESE_WORDLIST = require('../wordlists/japanese.json');
+import KOREAN_WORDLIST = require('../wordlists/korean.json');
+import SPANISH_WORDLIST = require('../wordlists/spanish.json');
+const DEFAULT_WORDLIST = ENGLISH_WORDLIST;
+
+const INVALID_MNEMONIC = 'Invalid mnemonic';
+const INVALID_ENTROPY = 'Invalid entropy';
+const INVALID_CHECKSUM = 'Invalid mnemonic checksum';
+
+function lpad(str: string, padString: string, length: number): string {
+  while (str.length < length) str = padString + str;
+  return str;
+}
+
+function binaryToByte(bin: string): number {
+  return parseInt(bin, 2);
+}
+
+function bytesToBinary(bytes: number[]): string {
+  return bytes
+    .map(function(x) {
+      return lpad(x.toString(2), '0', 8);
+    })
+    .join('');
+}
+
+function deriveChecksumBits(entropyBuffer: Buffer) {
+  var ENT = entropyBuffer.length * 8;
+  var CS = ENT / 32;
+  var hash = createHash('sha256')
+    .update(entropyBuffer)
+    .digest();
+
+  return bytesToBinary([].slice.call(hash)).slice(0, CS);
+}
+
+function salt(password?: string) {
+  return 'mnemonic' + (password || '');
+}
+
+function mnemonicToSeed(mnemonic: string, password: string): Buffer {
+  const mnemonicBuffer = Buffer.from(unorm.nfkd(mnemonic), 'utf8');
+  const saltBuffer = Buffer.from(salt(unorm.nfkd(password)), 'utf8');
+
+  return pbkdf2(mnemonicBuffer, saltBuffer, 2048, 64, 'sha512');
+}
+
+function mnemonicToSeedHex(mnemonic: string, password: string): string {
+  return mnemonicToSeed(mnemonic, password).toString('hex');
+}
+
+function mnemonicToSeedAsync(
+  mnemonic: string,
+  password: string,
+): Promise<Buffer> {
+  return new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
+    try {
+      var mnemonicBuffer = Buffer.from(unorm.nfkd(mnemonic), 'utf8');
+      var saltBuffer = Buffer.from(salt(unorm.nfkd(password)), 'utf8');
+    } catch (error) {
+      return reject(error);
+    }
+
+    pbkdf2Async(mnemonicBuffer, saltBuffer, 2048, 64, 'sha512', function(
+      err,
+      data,
+    ) {
+      if (err) return reject(err);
+      else return resolve(data);
+    });
+  });
+}
+
+function mnemonicToSeedHexAsync(
+  mnemonic: string,
+  password: string,
+): Promise<string> {
+  return mnemonicToSeedAsync(mnemonic, password).then(function(buf) {
+    return buf.toString('hex');
+  });
+}
+
+function mnemonicToEntropy(mnemonic: string, wordlist: string[]) {
+  wordlist = wordlist || DEFAULT_WORDLIST;
+
+  var words = unorm.nfkd(mnemonic).split(' ');
+  if (words.length % 3 !== 0) throw new Error(INVALID_MNEMONIC);
+
+  // convert word indices to 11 bit binary strings
+  var bits = words
+    .map(function(word) {
+      var index = wordlist.indexOf(word);
+      if (index === -1) throw new Error(INVALID_MNEMONIC);
+
+      return lpad(index.toString(2), '0', 11);
+    })
+    .join('');
+
+  // split the binary string into ENT/CS
+  var dividerIndex = Math.floor(bits.length / 33) * 32;
+  var entropyBits = bits.slice(0, dividerIndex);
+  var checksumBits = bits.slice(dividerIndex);
+
+  // calculate the checksum and compare
+  var entropyBytes = entropyBits.match(/(.{1,8})/g)!.map(binaryToByte);
+  if (entropyBytes.length < 16) throw new Error(INVALID_ENTROPY);
+  if (entropyBytes.length > 32) throw new Error(INVALID_ENTROPY);
+  if (entropyBytes.length % 4 !== 0) throw new Error(INVALID_ENTROPY);
+
+  var entropy = Buffer.from(entropyBytes);
+  var newChecksum = deriveChecksumBits(entropy);
+  if (newChecksum !== checksumBits) throw new Error(INVALID_CHECKSUM);
+
+  return entropy.toString('hex');
+}
+
+function entropyToMnemonic(
+  entropy: Buffer | string,
+  wordlist?: string[],
+): string {
+  if (!Buffer.isBuffer(entropy)) entropy = Buffer.from(entropy, 'hex');
+  wordlist = wordlist || DEFAULT_WORDLIST;
+
+  // 128 <= ENT <= 256
+  if (entropy.length < 16) throw new TypeError(INVALID_ENTROPY);
+  if (entropy.length > 32) throw new TypeError(INVALID_ENTROPY);
+  if (entropy.length % 4 !== 0) throw new TypeError(INVALID_ENTROPY);
+
+  var entropyBits = bytesToBinary([].slice.call(entropy));
+  var checksumBits = deriveChecksumBits(entropy);
+
+  var bits = entropyBits + checksumBits;
+  var chunks = bits.match(/(.{1,11})/g)!;
+  var words = chunks.map(function(binary) {
+    var index = binaryToByte(binary);
+    return wordlist![index];
+  });
+
+  return wordlist === JAPANESE_WORDLIST
+    ? words.join('\u3000')
+    : words.join(' ');
+}
+
+function generateMnemonic(
+  strength?: number,
+  rng?: (size: number) => Buffer,
+  wordlist?: string[],
+): string {
+  strength = strength || 128;
+  if (strength % 32 !== 0) throw new TypeError(INVALID_ENTROPY);
+  rng = rng || randomBytes;
+
+  return entropyToMnemonic(rng(strength / 8), wordlist);
+}
+
+function validateMnemonic(mnemonic: string, wordlist: string[]): boolean {
+  try {
+    mnemonicToEntropy(mnemonic, wordlist);
+  } catch (e) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  return true;
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+  mnemonicToSeed: mnemonicToSeed,
+  mnemonicToSeedAsync: mnemonicToSeedAsync,
+  mnemonicToSeedHex: mnemonicToSeedHex,
+  mnemonicToSeedHexAsync: mnemonicToSeedHexAsync,
+  mnemonicToEntropy: mnemonicToEntropy,
+  entropyToMnemonic: entropyToMnemonic,
+  generateMnemonic: generateMnemonic,
+  validateMnemonic: validateMnemonic,
+  wordlists: {
+    EN: ENGLISH_WORDLIST,
+    JA: JAPANESE_WORDLIST,
+
+    chinese_simplified: CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED_WORDLIST,
+    chinese_traditional: CHINESE_TRADITIONAL_WORDLIST,
+    english: ENGLISH_WORDLIST,
+    french: FRENCH_WORDLIST,
+    italian: ITALIAN_WORDLIST,
+    japanese: JAPANESE_WORDLIST,
+    korean: KOREAN_WORDLIST,
+    spanish: SPANISH_WORDLIST,
+  },
+};