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Are web3.personal.sign and web3.eth.sign difference in value of generate signature ? Or both of them generate an equal output ?

I could test web3.eth.sign using testRPC, however web3.personal.sign with testRPC gives error and I could not compare the output of both method with the same input.

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    In general, even signing the same message twice with the same ECDSA function will give different results, since the k value is chosen randomly each time – Tjaden Hess♦ Jul 20 '18 at 12:49
  • @Tjaden Hess Thank you, My main purpose is to run successfully JavaScript code presented here: link when i run it using node i receive some errors. Do you know what is the best way of running this JS code ? Do i need to create an html file and run it with browser ? or it's better to create a JS file and run it using node filename.js ? I describe the main question here: link Thanks – Questioner Jul 22 '18 at 13:01
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I think I had similar problem. I couldn't get correct address from ecrecover after message was signed with personal.sign, but it works fine after it was sign with eth.sign. Then I found this on web3 docs: https://web3js.readthedocs.io/en/1.0/web3-eth-personal.html#sign

"Signs data using a specific account. This data is before UTF-8 HEX decoded and enveloped as follows: "\x19Ethereum Signed Message:\n" + message.length + message."

After I added "\x19Ethereum Signed Message:\n" and message length to signed message, from which I want to recover address, it finally return correct address.

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