diff --git a/bech32/tweak.go b/bech32/tweak.go
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+++ b/bech32/tweak.go
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+package bech32
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// MaxLengthBIP173 is the maximum length of bech32-encoded address defined by
+// BIP-173.
+const MaxLengthBIP173 = 90
+
+// VerifyChecksum verifies whether the bech32 string specified by the
+// provided hrp and payload data (encoded as 5 bits per element byte slice) has
+// the correct checksum suffix. The version of bech32 used (bech32 OG, or
+// bech32m) is also returned to allow the caller to perform proper address
+// validation (segwitv0 should use bech32, v1+ should use bech32m).
+//
+// For more details on the checksum verification, please refer to BIP 173.
+func VerifyChecksum(hrp string, data []byte, checksum []byte) (Version, bool) {
+	polymod := bech32Polymod(hrp, data, checksum)
+
+	// Before BIP-350, we'd always check this against a static constant of
+	// 1 to know if the checksum was computed properly. As we want to
+	// generically support decoding for bech32m as well as bech32, we'll
+	// look up the returned value and compare it to the set of defined
+	// constants.
+	bech32Version, ok := ConstsToVersion[ChecksumConst(polymod)]
+	if ok {
+		return bech32Version, true
+	}
+
+	return VersionUnknown, false
+}
+
+// Normalize converts the uppercase letters to lowercase in string, because
+// Bech32 standard uses only the lowercase for of string for checksum calculation.
+// If conversion occurs during function call, `true` will be returned.
+//
+// Mixed case is NOT allowed.
+func Normalize(bech *string) (bool, error) {
+	// OnlyASCII characters between 33 and 126 are allowed.
+	var hasLower, hasUpper bool
+	for i := 0; i < len(*bech); i++ {
+		if (*bech)[i] < 33 || (*bech)[i] > 126 {
+			return false, ErrInvalidCharacter((*bech)[i])
+		}
+
+		// The characters must be either all lowercase or all uppercase. Testing
+		// directly with ascii codes is safe here, given the previous test.
+		hasLower = hasLower || ((*bech)[i] >= 97 && (*bech)[i] <= 122)
+		hasUpper = hasUpper || ((*bech)[i] >= 65 && (*bech)[i] <= 90)
+		if hasLower && hasUpper {
+			return false, ErrMixedCase{}
+		}
+	}
+
+	// Bech32 standard uses only the lowercase for of strings for checksum
+	// calculation.
+	if hasUpper {
+		*bech = strings.ToLower(*bech)
+		return true, nil
+	}
+
+	return false, nil
+}
+
+// DecodeUnsafe decodes a bech32 encoded string, returning the human-readable
+// part, the data part (excluding the checksum) and the checksum.  This function
+// does NOT validate against the BIP-173 maximum length allowed for bech32 strings
+// and is meant for use in custom applications (such as lightning network payment
+// requests), NOT on-chain addresses.  This function assumes the given string
+// includes lowercase letters only, so if not, you should call Normalize first.
+//
+// Note that the returned data is 5-bit (base32) encoded and the human-readable
+// part will be lowercase.
+func DecodeUnsafe(bech string) (string, []byte, []byte, error) {
+	// The string is invalid if the last '1' is non-existent, it is the
+	// first character of the string (no human-readable part) or one of the
+	// last 6 characters of the string (since checksum cannot contain '1').
+	one := strings.LastIndexByte(bech, '1')
+	if one < 1 || one+7 > len(bech) {
+		return "", nil, nil, ErrInvalidSeparatorIndex(one)
+	}
+
+	// The human-readable part is everything before the last '1'.
+	hrp := bech[:one]
+	data := bech[one+1:]
+
+	// Each character corresponds to the byte with value of the index in
+	// 'charset'.
+	decoded, err := toBytes(data)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", nil, nil, err
+	}
+
+	return hrp, decoded[:len(decoded)-6], decoded[len(decoded)-6:], nil
+}
+
+// decodeWithLimit is a bech32 checksum version aware bounded string length
+// decoder. This function will return the version of the decoded checksum
+// constant so higher level validation can be performed to ensure the correct
+// version of bech32 was used when encoding.
+func decodeWithLimit(bech string, limit int) (string, []byte, Version, error) {
+	// The length of the string should not exceed the given limit.
+	if len(bech) < 8 || len(bech) > limit {
+		return "", nil, VersionUnknown, ErrInvalidLength(len(bech))
+	}
+
+	_, err := Normalize(&bech)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", nil, VersionUnknown, err
+	}
+
+	hrp, data, checksum, err := DecodeUnsafe(bech)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", nil, VersionUnknown, err
+	}
+
+	// Verify if the checksum (stored inside decoded[:]) is valid, given the
+	// previously decoded hrp.
+	bech32Version, ok := VerifyChecksum(hrp, data, checksum)
+	if !ok {
+		// Invalid checksum. Calculate what it should have been, so that the
+		// error contains this information.
+
+		// Extract the payload bytes and actual checksum in the string.
+		actual := bech[len(bech)-6:]
+
+		// Calculate the expected checksum, given the hrp and payload
+		// data. We'll actually compute _both_ possibly valid checksum
+		// to further aide in debugging.
+		var expectedBldr strings.Builder
+		expectedBldr.Grow(6)
+		writeBech32Checksum(hrp, data, &expectedBldr, Version0)
+		expectedVersion0 := expectedBldr.String()
+
+		var b strings.Builder
+		b.Grow(6)
+		writeBech32Checksum(hrp, data, &expectedBldr, VersionM)
+		expectedVersionM := expectedBldr.String()
+
+		err = ErrInvalidChecksum{
+			Expected:  expectedVersion0,
+			ExpectedM: expectedVersionM,
+			Actual:    actual,
+		}
+		return "", nil, VersionUnknown, err
+	}
+
+	// We exclude the last 6 bytes, which is the checksum.
+	return hrp, data, bech32Version, nil
+
+}
+
+// DecodeWithLimit decodes a bech32 encoded string, returning the human-readable part and
+// the data part excluding the checksum.
+//
+// Note that the returned data is 5-bit (base32) encoded and the human-readable
+// part will be lowercase.
+func DecodeWithLimit(bech string, limit int) (string, []byte, error) {
+	hrp, data, _, err := decodeWithLimit(bech, limit)
+	return hrp, data, err
+}
diff --git a/bech32/tweak_test.go b/bech32/tweak_test.go
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+++ b/bech32/tweak_test.go
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+// Copyright (c) 2017-2020 The btcsuite developers
+// Copyright (c) 2019 The Decred developers
+// Use of this source code is governed by an ISC
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package bech32
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// TestBech32Tweak tests whether decoding and re-encoding the valid BIP-173 test
+// vectors works and if decoding invalid test vectors fails for the correct
+// reason.
+func TestBech32Tweak(t *testing.T) {
+	tests := []struct {
+		str           string
+		expectedError error
+	}{
+		{"A12UEL5L", nil},
+		{"a12uel5l", nil},
+		{"an83characterlonghumanreadablepartthatcontainsthenumber1andtheexcludedcharactersbio1tt5tgs", nil},
+		{"abcdef1qpzry9x8gf2tvdw0s3jn54khce6mua7lmqqqxw", nil},
+		{"11qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqc8247j", nil},
+		{"split1checkupstagehandshakeupstreamerranterredcaperred2y9e3w", nil},
+		{"split1checkupstagehandshakeupstreamerranterredcaperred2y9e2w", ErrInvalidChecksum{"2y9e3w", "2y9e3wlc445v", "2y9e2w"}}, // invalid checksum
+		{"s lit1checkupstagehandshakeupstreamerranterredcaperredp8hs2p", ErrInvalidCharacter(' ')},                               // invalid character (space) in hrp
+		{"spl\x7Ft1checkupstagehandshakeupstreamerranterredcaperred2y9e3w", ErrInvalidCharacter(127)},                            // invalid character (DEL) in hrp
+		{"split1cheo2y9e2w", ErrNonCharsetChar('o')},                                                                             // invalid character (o) in data part
+		{"split1a2y9w", ErrInvalidSeparatorIndex(5)},                                                                             // too short data part
+		{"1checkupstagehandshakeupstreamerranterredcaperred2y9e3w", ErrInvalidSeparatorIndex(0)},                                 // empty hrp
+		{"11qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqsqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqc8247j", ErrInvalidLength(91)},    // too long
+
+		// Additional test vectors used in bitcoin core
+		{" 1nwldj5", ErrInvalidCharacter(' ')},
+		{"\x7f" + "1axkwrx", ErrInvalidCharacter(0x7f)},
+		{"\x801eym55h", ErrInvalidCharacter(0x80)},
+		{"an84characterslonghumanreadablepartthatcontainsthenumber1andtheexcludedcharactersbio1569pvx", ErrInvalidLength(91)},
+		{"pzry9x0s0muk", ErrInvalidSeparatorIndex(-1)},
+		{"1pzry9x0s0muk", ErrInvalidSeparatorIndex(0)},
+		{"x1b4n0q5v", ErrNonCharsetChar(98)},
+		{"li1dgmt3", ErrInvalidSeparatorIndex(2)},
+		{"de1lg7wt\xff", ErrInvalidCharacter(0xff)},
+		{"A1G7SGD8", ErrInvalidChecksum{"2uel5l", "2uel5llqfn3a", "g7sgd8"}},
+		{"10a06t8", ErrInvalidLength(7)},
+		{"1qzzfhee", ErrInvalidSeparatorIndex(0)},
+		{"a12UEL5L", ErrMixedCase{}},
+		{"A12uEL5L", ErrMixedCase{}},
+	}
+
+	for i, test := range tests {
+		str := test.str
+		hrp, decoded, err := DecodeWithLimit(str, MaxLengthBIP173)
+		if test.expectedError != err {
+			t.Errorf("%d: expected decoding error %v "+
+				"instead got %v", i, test.expectedError, err)
+			continue
+		}
+
+		if err != nil {
+			// End test case here if a decoding error was expected.
+			continue
+		}
+
+		// Check that it encodes to the same string
+		encoded, err := Encode(hrp, decoded)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("encoding failed: %v", err)
+		}
+
+		if encoded != strings.ToLower(str) {
+			t.Errorf("expected data to encode to %v, but got %v",
+				str, encoded)
+		}
+
+		// Flip a bit in the string an make sure it is caught.
+		pos := strings.LastIndexAny(str, "1")
+		flipped := str[:pos+1] + string((str[pos+1] ^ 1)) + str[pos+2:]
+		_, _, err = DecodeWithLimit(flipped, MaxLengthBIP173)
+		if err == nil {
+			t.Error("expected decoding to fail")
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// BenchmarkDecodeUnsafe performs a benchmark for a decode cycle of a bech32
+// string without normalization and checksum validation.
+func BenchmarkDecodeUnsafe(b *testing.B) {
+	encoded := "tb1qrp33g0q5c5txsp9arysrx4k6zdkfs4nce4xj0gdcccefvpysxf3q0sl5k7"
+
+	b.ResetTimer()
+	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+		_, _, _, err := DecodeUnsafe(encoded)
+		if err != nil {
+			b.Fatalf("error converting bits: %v", err)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// BenchmarkDecode performs a benchmark for a decode cycle of a bech32 string
+// with normalization and checksum validation.
+func BenchmarkDecode(b *testing.B) {
+	encoded := "tb1qrp33g0q5c5txsp9arysrx4k6zdkfs4nce4xj0gdcccefvpysxf3q0sl5k7"
+
+	b.ResetTimer()
+	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+		_, _, err := DecodeWithLimit(encoded, MaxLengthBIP173)
+		if err != nil {
+			b.Fatalf("error converting bits: %v", err)
+		}
+	}
+}