So I’m excited to setup my Trezor Safe 5 and watched endless tutorial videos on the matter. Before I do ANYTHING I want to do it 100% right. A few of them recommend disconnecting the WiFi before receiving the seedphrase and then reconnecting to Trezor Suite afterwards. Does this interrupt anything essential with the interface/setup?
To further complicate things, if you’re doing it over a VPN for increased security does this creating any additional complications?
I’ve been in the crypto world since 2017 and lost it all with the self-custody Atomic Wallet hack in 2023. Hence my interest in the Trezor hardware wallet with passphrase feature.
It’s not a problem – the seed generation process doesn’t use internet connection for anything.
It’s also kind of naive. Hypothetically speaking, if the setup process did something nefarious, like broadcasting your seed, or saving some part of the entropy, or whatever… then any halfway clever implementation would save the data locally and wait for you to come back online, so that you achieved exactly nothing.
If you are paranoid about this scenario, you would have to do install Suite on a fully offline computer, do the setup there, and then wipe that computer clean and use your Trezor on a different one…
…of course, that’s assuming that it’s only the setup phase that is either nefarious or vulnerable, as opposed to any later time
You may also want to avoid Suite for the setup process altogether and use trezorctl.
Thanks for the timely and informative response. That was pretty much what I would have guessed. I just think where security is involved, if a person is the slightest bit unsure about anything it’s not a bad thing to ask. Trezor Suite looks really nice from all the tutorials I’ve watched and I’m looking forward to but I am curious about the “trezorctl” you mentioned. Would you mind elaborating more on that?
