Does wiping the Trezor then restoring the seed in any way lessen the security of that particular seed? I feel a little uncomfortable moving my fortune onto the wallet without first testing that I can restore it. Before creating my final wallet, I did extensive testing with creating then restoring wallets with and without passwords. Even though I now feel like I am experienced, I feel an uneasy sense not testing the final wallet. What if somehow I wrote the seed down wrong or something. Is this just my O.C.D. messing with me? I would like to test it but I dont like the idea of typing my seed words of my final wallet into the computer either. I know there are a few other wallets that have you confirm that your wallet seed backup is good such as Electrum or Mycelium.
Yes it does. Not to the point of breakability, but it's less secure if keylogged:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.8243033If you plan to test it, then it's a good idea to do it on a secure computer.
I think I figured out a method to test/restore the seed to the trezor with maintaining 100% security as before. Here is what I did:
1. I ran an Ubuntu live disk
2. While connected to the internet, I opened firefox then navigated to mytrezor.com and installed the plugin.
3. I then unplugged my ethernet cable insuring that I was no longer connected to the internet.
4.I then went back to the still open firefox tab containing mytrezor.com.
5. I wiped the trezor
6. I then proceeded to restore my seed while still disconnected from the internet.
7. When the seed was finally finished, i got an error on mytrezor.com claiming that the restore failed. I was thinking that it was saying this because it had no access to the internet to validate the wallet. So I plugged in my restored trezor to another computer and there it was, fully restored.
8. I then rebooted the computer that was running the live ubuntu cd before replugging my ethernet.
One thing I noticed though while restoring the seed while offline, the trezor never asked me to type in random words that werent part of my seed to throw off any keyloggers as it had done in the past, when i restored other seeds. its as if trezor knew I was on a secure computer.
