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Bitcoin-Backpacker on Nostr: YOU CHECK THAT YOUR HARDWARE DEVICE DERIVED THE CORRECT SEED PHRASE BY INDEPENDENTLY ...

YOU CHECK THAT YOUR HARDWARE DEVICE DERIVED THE CORRECT SEED PHRASE BY INDEPENDENTLY CALCULATING THE BIP-39 MNEMONIC FROM YOUR RAW DICE ROLLS USING A SEPARATE OFFLINE TOOL OR OPEN-SOURCE SCRIPT AND COMPARING THE RESULT.


BECAUSE BIP-39 IS A PURELY DETERMINISTIC MATHEMATICAL SPECIFICATION, GIVING THE EXACT SAME ENTROPY INPUT TO ANY TWO COMPLIANT CALCULATORS MUST YIELD THE EXACT SAME 12 OR 24 WORDS.