Questions tagged [ecrecover]
Questions about EcRecover, a function of the programming language Solidity to verify a signature on the blockchain
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Cannot verifiy a signature produced by Ledger in Solidity using ecrecover
I used a smart contract to verify signatures:
function verify(string memory _msg, bytes memory _sig) public pure returns (address) {
bytes memory _msgHex = bytes(_msg);
bytes32 prefixedHash = ...
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EIP712: ecrecover returns different address from recoverTypedSignature_v4
I am trying to sign typed data via MetaMask "eth_signTypedData_v4". Recovering signer via recoverTypedSignature_v4 returns correct address that I signed my data with. But smart contract ...
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How to implement owner check in Solidity
Is there any EIP that specifies how to implement function in contract, that let's you call any other function as contract owner, with provided signature?
I don't want to reinvent wheel.
For example:
I ...
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Is it best practice to check signature malleability in ecrecover
I am wondering if it is considered best practice to guard against signature malleability to check against the half curve order like this or if this is totally unnecessary.
uint256 constant ...
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EIP712— Sign/Recovery using ethereumJS/Solidity
I've tried to mirror the example as shown: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/tree/master/assets/eip-712
However after much attempt at troubleshooting I have been unable to return the correct address ...
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Verification of ECDSA signature is not valid while testing HashDice.sol
While practising on the ethereum contract HashDice.sol using truffle, the verification of the ECDSA signature is getting invalid after running the test script.
describe('verify()', () => {
it('...
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What is the gas cost of recovering a wallet address from a signature using Solidity?
As titled. I understand that there's an ecrecover function in Solidity. Can I use it for recovering a wallet address from a signature? Is it cheaper than a Keccak hash operation?
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Recover public key from sign generated by AWS Cloud HSM - Golang
I am signing a transaction by using a private key in AWS Cloud HSM. But not able to recover the correct public key from the signature. Every time I try to run ECRecover method, it generates different ...
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What's the magic numbers meaning of 27 or 28 in VRS ( use to ecrover the sender) ? why not 0 or 1?
What's the magic numbers meaning of 27 or 28 in VRS ( use to ecrover the sender) ? why not 0 or 1?
Ecrecover need 0 or 1, but transaction RLP is 27 or 28. Before ecrecover, sub 27 to get 0 or 1. Why ...
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ethers.js Recover public key from contract deployment via v,r,s values
I'm currently trying to get the public key of the user that deploys a contract. Unfortunately I can't make it work.
I am trying to achieve this solely by using ethers.js as I don't want to bloat my ...
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Signature not matching the sig obtained from MyEtherWallet
I am serializing the unsigned txn in C, then I found Keccak-256 hash and I signed it with the privatekey. However, the resulting signature is not the same as in MyEtherWallet for the same values(...
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Recovering of typed signature fails because it's too long
I have a typed signature generated by EIP712 V3. It is 132 characters long. I'm trying to recover it using recoverTypedSignature from eth-sig-util. This fails saying:
index.js:1 Error: Invalid ...
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Sign message with web3 and verify with openzeppelin-solidity ECDSA.sol
I'm trying to get a little example working with ECDSA.sol here: https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts/blob/master/contracts/cryptography/ECDSA.sol
This contract:
Generate a random(...
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How to have ecrecover return nothing ? I means which value for malformed input?
I have a contract where the hash value is also the key to unlock the money.
As the full ecrecover parameters are fetched from transaction parameters, and it was compiled in 2016, it is vulnerable to ...
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How to call ecrecover() in pure assembly?
If I do remember correctly, it’s a contract built‑in in the Ethereum Virtual machine, isn’t it?
if yes, what’s the address to call for it?
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ecrecover() always returns 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
I'm aware of these posts
How do you sign an verify a message in javascript proving you own an Ethereum address?
How does one properly use ecrecover to verify Ethereum signatures?
I'd like to sign a ...
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ecrecover not giving back the adress of the sender
I am trying to understand how eliptic curve work and when i try to get the sender of this transaction: https://etherscan.io/tx/0x14a298c1eea89f42285948b7d51eeac2876ca7406c9784b9b90dd3591d156d64 ( ...
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How to pass bytes32 to Web3.methods.function.call
I have a contract that is doing an ecrecover:
function recover(bytes32 h, uint8 v, bytes32 r, bytes32 s) public returns (address) {
return ecrecover(h, v, r, s);
}
It works ...
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How to get the zero address from ecrecover?
I have a fair understanding of how ecrecover works, but I don't know how to enforce a parameter set that will deterministically return the 0x0 address. I need this in my contract tests.
Is this even ...
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web3js recover returns different address than what signed message
Web3js as of version 1.0.0 beta supports an interface for verifying signed messages: https://github.com/ethereum/web3.js/issues/404
This is documented here: https://web3js.readthedocs.io/en/1.0/web3-...
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Ecrecover wrong address is returned
I'm trying to validate signed data with ecrecover.
The message is signed like this on the FE:
return this.web3.eth.personal.sign( `${nonce}`, publicAddress ).then( ( signature ) => {
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Why does ecrecover() take signature parameters (v,r,s) instead of the full signature?
Is there any reason ecrecover() takes the (v, r, s) signature parameters instead of the full signature, given that these can be easily computed inside the function itself?
I am asking because ...
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How to change prefix of signature in Javascript?
Is it possible to change the signature prefix, which by default:
"\x19Ethereum Signed Message:\n32"
Can I change it to another prefix?
I need to get a signature in solidity in this way:
bytes32 ...
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HD wallet public to public key derivation and non-hardened keys
This question is about hierarchical deterministic wallets and the bip32 standard which, as I understand it, allows you to deterministically derive child private/public key pairs from a master seed ...
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web3.eth.sign sometimes gives V parameter of 54 or 55, ecrecover then fails. What's going on?
I've been using ecrecover and web3.eth.sign to authorize transactions, but when I run web3.eth.sign a second time on my server, the V part of the signature is wrong(or, at least, ecrecover thinks it's ...
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Geth ecrecover function returning '0x'
can someone help me with this ecrecover issue? The code below is a truffle test. The recoverSigner function just calls ecrecover, but the return is always '0x'. Recovering with ethereumjs-util works ...
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web3py: get public key from transaction
I'm trying to retrieve the public key of an address from a transaction. I'm getting the transaction via tx = web3.eth.getTransaction('xxx')
According to the docs the public key should be retrievable ...
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Does Ethereum support pairing operations?
I need to build an application that uses bilinear pairing operations for generating signatures. If I send a message with its signature to Ethereum, can Ethereum verify this message? Does the EVM ...
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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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Verifying Signed Data
I am busy trying to get my head around recovery of an address using ecrecover(). The I'm having trouble recovering the correct address when providing signed data to the contract.
The contract that I'...
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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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How to use web3 function (ecRecover) that shouldn't require a provider?
I want to use web3's ecRecover functionality and nothing else. Unless I misunderstand its requirements - a signature, the signed data, some cryptomagic and poof you have recovered the signer - why do ...
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Verification of externally-created ECDSA signatures in Solidity
I have ECDSA signatures created using Golang without using web3 or anything related to Ethereum, and I want to verify these in Solidity.
Step 1: Signing the message in Golang
My Go code to create ...
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Ecrecover function doesn't trigger when called in truffle test
I am trying to run some tests for my ecrecover function. I saw a bunch of tutorials and I always have the same problem, my contract always reverts before anything is being logged.
Contract function
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Extracting Public key from signed Ethereum message or transaction in JavaScript
I'm trying to find out how to derive a public key (not the address) of an Ethereum account by using ethereumjs-util's ecrecover method.
Basically I get a transaction by hash using Web3, convert r, s ...
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Web3j Signature and Solidity Ecrecover
I'm trying to understand how to sign a message in Java and recover the public key in a Solidity smart contract however my public keys don't seem to match.
Here's my Java code to generate the signature:...
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Truffle web3.eth.sign produces wrong signature
Somehow truffle produces an invalid signature.
To clarify this I imported the private key of the first Ganache account to metamask and compared the results.
The following code used in a chrome ...
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Is there any way to ecrecover something twice? (I.e. something signed by two different people)
I have a signature. That signature was then signed by someone else.
If I pass this doubly-signed message as an argument to my function, is there a way to recover both signers?
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How to compute ecrecover parameters in solidity?
There are many answer which explain how to compute _r, _s, _v with an other language.
But how to compute parameters in solidity itself ? Is there a built-in function like ecrecover ?
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OpenZeppelin ECRecovery does not work
I am trying to use the OpenZeppelin ECRecovery library for a project I am working on.
Unfortunately I don't fully understand how it works and there's no documentation for it.
Let's say I want to ...
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Validating Go Ethereum key signature with ecrecover
Resolved
The basic process flow of what I'm writing goes as follows.
Sign a message with a private key and create an Ethereum address from the private key (AKA the vettingAddress)
Pass the signature ...
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verify ecdsa signature in solidity
I want to create a smart contract that contains the public key of a party (the key is generated outside the blockchain) and contains a function to verify signed data.
How can we implement this ...
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Problem with web3.eth.personal.ecRecover
I'm using web3 v1.0 beta33 ethereum packages to do some signing and address recovery in a javascript/Angular5 app. I picked this version because I didn't see this function in 0.2x web3 versions' ...
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Dynamic number of inputs to a smart contract
Assume we a smart contract that accepts a number of cryptographically signed attributes. The smart contract will validate each signature and check that all the addresses of those signed signatures ...
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To pay for the gas for ERC20 token holders' transactions
I would like to make a ERC20 contract in which the contract owner will pay the gas for clients transactions (for example, to allow to transfer tokens between clients for free).
There is an excellent ...
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Get public key from signature in a smart contract (note, public key, not address)
Are there any libraries to get a public key from a signature in a smart contract? The ecrecover method returns an address, not a public key, and to do computations that need to derive a public key ...
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Why the value of v is always either 27 (11011) or 28 (11100)?
Why the value of v is always either 27 (11011) or 28 (11100), and, how is it known wether it will be 27 or 28?
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Convert an hexadecimal string to bytes in pure Solidity
I am using Oraclize to recover a signature from a website. When I have it, I have to check if the address who signed it is correct. To do that, I would use ECRecovery from Zeppelin.
The signature ...
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What is the best type to store a signature on chain?
I'm signing a hash and getting a string with 130 bytes. What is the best way to store this signature later in my smart contract?
Should I just go ahead and split it into r,s, and v and store it in ...
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Verifying Bicoin signed message in Ethereum smart contract
I'd like to explore the option to verify the messages that have been signed in Bitcoin wallets in Ethereum smart contracts.
Ethereum smart contract is given a list of Bitcoin addresses
Ethereum smart ...
