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I am having trouble deploying my smart contract to the ropsten network using infura and truffle am getting error that says

"var sig = secp256k1.sign(msgHash, privateKey);
                      ^
TypeError: private key should be a Buffer"
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    can you share some code / link of a tutorial you used ?
    – n1cK
    Jun 27, 2018 at 9:24
  • It appears you are passing an incorrect format for privateKey. If you have the hexadecimal private key you should pass as raw bytes instead const privateKey = Buffer.from("ab1a..", "hex");
    – Ismael
    Jun 30, 2018 at 20:02

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You can find how to deploy a contract using truffle and infura as it is explained truffle documentation

I copied the deployment code that I already owned below,

// Allows us to use ES6 in our migrations and tests.
require('babel-register')

const HDWalletProvider = require("truffle-hdwallet-provider-privkey");

const privateKey = "PRIVATEKEYADDRESS"; // private keys

module.exports = {
  // See <http://truffleframework.com/docs/advanced/configuration>
  // for more about customizing your Truffle configuration!
  networks: {
    development: {
      host: "127.0.0.1",
      port: 8545,
      network_id: "*" // Match any network id
    },
    rinkeby: {
      provider: () => {
        return new HDWalletProvider(privateKey, "https://rinkeby.infura.io/INFURAAPIKEY")
      },
      network_id: 4
    }
  }
};

Hope it works for you as well

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  • Mehmet Dogan Thanks for the help but am still getting another error it outputs Error encountered, bailing. Network state unknown. Review successful transactions manually. insufficient funds for gas * price + value
    – daniel
    Jun 28, 2018 at 8:03
  • You share little with us and want to get full answer. But as far I know, this error is encountered when you try to deploy an Interface which includes unimplemented functions like ERC20Interface. Assuming that you try to deploy a contract named myContract contract myContract is ERC20Interface { .. } Then you just need to include myContract in your 2_deploy_contracts.js file Jun 28, 2018 at 17:58
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You have to use 'from' address in lower case while deploying the contract to test network inorder to avoid this error.

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  • Your answer is unrelated to the question asked.
    – Ismael
    Dec 6, 2018 at 21:16
  • Give a try. Actually, it worked for me and hence I responded!! Dec 7, 2018 at 15:45
  • The function used secp256k1.sign doesn't accept a from parameter.
    – Ismael
    Dec 7, 2018 at 19:45
  • If you are deploying your contract like this for example: SampleContract.new(abcd, {from: '0xAD123EFG456...'}).then(function(){}); then the from address should be in small letters like SampleContract.new(abcd, {from: '0xad123efg456...'}).then(function(){}); Dec 8, 2018 at 12:28
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Agree with Ismael saying the function sepc256k1.sign won't need from parameter. worked for me without private keys declaration and from parameter

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