I don’t want to use the recovery seed suggested by my Trezor T, for reasons I don’t want to go into. Instead I generate my own 12 words from the BIP English set.
My understanding was that this seed ought to be enough to create a new wallet: I enter them into my Trezor, and start using the corresponding (new, unique) wallet.
Not so!
After I enter my 12-word seed into a factory-reset Trezor T as part of “Recovery from seed”, I get the error you have entered an invalid recovery seed
and cannot continue.
Are the 12 seed words constrained in some way = not full entropy? Is there a checksum? What’s the algo for seed validity.
Trezor T, Suite 22.2.3, latest firmware as of today.