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feat(profile-sync-controller): derive auth and user-storage signing keys natively via SIP-6 instead of message-signing-snap - #9824

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Related to: https://consensyssoftware.atlassian.net/browse/MUL-2058
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  • I've updated the test suite for new or updated code as appropriate
  • I've updated documentation (JSDoc, Markdown, etc.) for new or updated code as appropriate
  • I've communicated my changes to consumers by updating changelogs for packages I've changed
  • I've introduced breaking changes in this PR and have prepared draft pull requests for clients and consumer packages to resolve them

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Breaking messenger contract plus in-process cryptographic signing and HD seed access; behavior must stay byte-identical to the snap or login and storage keys break.

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BREAKING: AuthenticationController and UserStorageController no longer call SnapController:handleRequest on @metamask/message-signing-snap for login identifiers or user-storage keys. They now read the HD keyring seed via KeyringController:withKeyringV2Unsafe, derive the same SIP-6 message-signing key in-process, and sign metamask:… messages locally. Clients must grant withKeyringV2Unsafe on the messenger and can drop snap permissions for these controllers; the message-signing snap stays for Portfolio / external origins.

New shared modules message-signing (vendored SIP-6 + pubkey/sign parity with the snap) and hd-keyring-seed replace auth-snap-requests. HMAC-SHA-512 for SLIP-10 uses @noble/hashes so derivation works on React Native where SubtleCrypto cannot HMAC. Dependencies drop @metamask/snaps-* and add @metamask/key-tree / @noble/curves. Auth’s sign-message cache is keyed by entropy source + message (aligned with user-storage). Tests and mocks target the native helpers instead of snap RPC.

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