Linked Questions
20 questions linked to/from ecrecover from Geth and web3.eth.sign
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workflow on signing a string with private key, followed by signature verification with public key
I know this question has been asked and answered, but while trying to get everything to work, I've come across some problems. This is what I'm trying to do:
1. take a target string 'Schoolbus'
2. ...
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Ethereum ecrecover signature verification and encryption
The question of signing and verifying signatures with Solidity has been asked in these questions, both of which I have tried to study:
How can I sign a piece of data with the private key of an ...
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How can I verify a cryptographic signature that was produced by an Ethereum address key pair
If I have a cryptographic signature from an Ethereum address key pair, how can I verify that signature?
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Does ecRecover in solidity expects the "\x19Ethereum Signed Message:\n"-prefix
I struggle heavy to actually recover the ethereum address from a hash and the {r, s, v} from a signature with the ecRecover-method in solidity.
What i want is to sign another ethereum-address. So i ...
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Getting the wrong address back from ecrecover
When I sign a string using the following code I get back a different address to the one I signed with. The address returned is different for different strings.
const util = require('ethereumjs-util')
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How does one properly use ecrecover to verify Ethereum signatures?
I've been searching to figure out what I'm doing wrong here, but I've had no luck yet. As far as I can tell, I'm using ecrecover correctly, but I can't seem to get back the signing Ethereum address.
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Solidity ecrecover and web3j Sign.signMessage() are not compatible, is it?
Using Web3j to sign and verify a message is fine but when I use the signature generated by Web3j to verify using ecrecover in solidity it doesnot seem to work correctly. The signer address is ...
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Should signed text messages use the "\x19Ethereum Signed Message" prefix?
Background: I want to implement sign message feature in Trezor.
Is there a standard for signing text messages?
So far I found out that etherscan.io signs messages without the prefix, i.e. it signs ...
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How does ecrecover actually work?
I have a basic understanding of elliptic curves, so I'm more interested to find out how does ecrecover specifically verify signatures. It has rather weird requirements, like this prefix thing (excerpt ...
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Unable to use ecrecover in solidity to recover address used to sign a message, simply returns 0x0 address
I do the following in geth:
var msgHash = web3.sha3("hello")
var signature = eth.sign(eth.accounts[0], msgHash)
var r = signature.slice(0,64)
var s = "0x" +signature.slice(64,128)
var v = signature....
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Issue while trying to verify signature
I am using the following to sign a message
var str="Trial with signature";
text=web3.sha3(str);
var sig=web3.eth.sign(eth.accounts[0],text);
Now after obtaining the hash value from the text and ...
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I need help with signatures
So, for my studies, I am supposed to interact with a contract function that has the following built in condition:
if (ecrecover(_h, _v, _r, _s) == msg.sender && _h == sha3(this))
I am ...
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How to call this solidity function with Web3js when executing the contract?
I’m new with ethereum.
I’m definitely struggling with the last 4 parameter of this function, so I’m asking the problem directly.
mapping(address => uint256) nonces;
/*
* Proxy transfer token. ...
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Public key validation through private key
What is a good way to validate that the public key claimed to belong to a particular user really belongs to him without revealing the associated private key? Can this be done with zero-knowledge ...
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Trouble with ecrecover()
I have a test routine in Truffle which hashes data, signs it and passes the signature data to a contract to verify. The first test hashes a single string and its signature is successfully verified by ...
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