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The node needs to *sign* payment channel commitments with the private keys. To do that, it must be able to access them unencrypted.
Comment by midipoet at 22/12/2017 at 15:48 UTC
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Are you talking about opening channels, or are you on about relaying payments?
If it's opening a channel, of course it needs a private key, but what wallet in crypto wouldn't?