Quote from: AMOD on February 07, 2017, 08:56:36 AM

Thanks for reply.

However, i am not conversant with the language so cannot verify on my own.

Is there any other way to know that the SEED is not pre-decided ? Also how to ensure that private keys are built from this SEED only. Theoretically it is possible that the SEED is random but the private key building algorithm is fixed by the programmer. Programmer could have pre-created many Private key-public key-address combinations and the algorithm is generating only those outputs. Thus he can spent from my thus generated addresses.

Am I worrying too much and should go by the reputation of ELECTRUM?

Yes, you're worrying to much, ThomasV is a standup member of the community, and i seriously doubt he'd even attempt to sneek in a backdoor. Even if he would ever do such a thing (which i seriously doubt!!!), the sourcecode is open source, so i assume the backdoor would have been found by now.

If you're really, really, really, afraid of everything and everyone, you can always generate your own seed and use this in electrum.
You can use the seed to generate the xprv and xpub, and use online or offline tools to verify if the addresses generated by your own seed match the addresses generated by electrum