I am trying to sign a string using web3.eth.sign() and then get the public key I signed with from the signature. To do this I am using ecrecover() from ethereumjs-utils, which returns a buffer. When I use bufferToHex() on the buffer it gives a hex string that is much too long to be an address - 130 characters including '0x'
web3.personal.unlockAccount(myAccount,pass)
msg = web3.sha3(aString)
sig = web3.eth.sign(myAccount,msg)
r = sig.slice(0, 66)
s = '0x' + sig.slice(66, 130)
v = '0x' + sig.slice(130, 132)
v = web3.toDecimal(v)
msg = ethJsUtil.toBuffer(msg)
addr = ethJsUtil.ecrecover(msg,v,r,s)
addr = ethJsUtil.bufferToHex(addr)
I took most of the code from the answer to workflow on signing a string with private key, followed by signature verification with public key but had to convert 'msg' to a buffer as ecrecover threw a type error otherwise.
What do I need to do to convert the buffer from ecrecover to an address?