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Mnemonic Code for HD Keys (BIP39) {#mnemonic-code-for-hd-keys-bip39}

As you have seen, generating HD keys is easy. However, what if we want an easy way to transmit such a key by telephone or hand writing?

Cold wallets like Trezor, generate the HD Keys from a sentence that can easily be written down. They call such a sentence “the seed” or “mnemonic”. And it can eventually be protected by a password or a PIN.

The language that you use to generate your 'easy to write' sentence is called a Wordlist.

Mnemonic mnemo = new Mnemonic(Wordlist.English, WordCount.Twelve);
ExtKey hdRoot = mnemo.DeriveExtKey("my password");
Console.WriteLine(mnemo);

minute put grant neglect anxiety case globe win famous correct turn link

Now, if you have the mnemonic and the password, you can recover the hdRoot key.

mnemo = new Mnemonic("minute put grant neglect anxiety case globe win famous correct turn link",
                Wordlist.English);
hdRoot = mnemo.DeriveExtKey("my password");

Currently supported languages for wordlist are, English, Japanese, Spanish, Chinese (simplified and traditional).