Questions tagged [ecrecover]
Questions about EcRecover, a function of the programming language Solidity to verify a signature on the blockchain
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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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Digital Signature Prefix Version Compatibility for web3
I am part of a team that develops a dApp that runs on multiple clients on Android, iOS, and Web. So all the signatures for the same data should be exactly the same (considering v value may differ - ...
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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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Prevent replay attacks with signed inputs to smart contracts
I found the following contract that returns whether a signature is valid or not.
contract Verifier {
function isSigned(address _addr, bytes32 msgHash, uint8 v, bytes32 r, bytes32 s) returns (bool)...
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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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Passing signature parameter to ERC865 contract and ecrecover()
I'm trying to deploy ERC865 Token while using C# Nethereum.
The ERC865 contract expect to get signature length of 65 and when i tray to use "geth attach" web3.sha3(privatekey) i get 68 characters long ...
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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 ...
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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
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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 ...
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How are state channels being implemented (MetaMask?)
I've been trying to get MetaMask to produce a signature for a sha3 hash that I can verify in solidity. I've tried eth_sign, personal_sign, eth_signTypedData, and I've had 0 success.
My test suite ...
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Can a message hash be recovered from a signature?
A message can be signed and its signing public key recovered given the signature and message hash...
signature = web3.personal.sign(<account>,<message hash>)
pubKey = web3.personal....
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Signatures differ in web3js and web3j
I'm using web3J version 3.0.0-alpha4 and hit following problem. When I sign the same raw message (it's simply string like "TEST" for now) I get different signatures using web3js i web3j. The signature ...
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Ecrecover: does passing the hash and checking it adds any security?
I have seen quite a few examples where both the data and the hash of the data is passed.
The signature is verified using ecrecover which is fine.
The passed hash is also verified against the ...
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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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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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How to get test ether and properly use ecrecover
I have an account on ropsten without ether. I don't know how or where to get test ether. I only know of one faucet that is self-explanatory enough for me to use it, which is http://faucet.ropsten.be:...
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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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using solidity to verify ECDSA signature from external key pair
say a user has an external public key (unrelated to ethereum address). they use the private key associated with this public key to sign sha3(message) via ECDSA. the message, public key and signature ...
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Ethereum signature verification not matching
What I want to achieve is sign a message and then verify the signature whether verified by same address or not.
Contract to Invoke ecrecover method to verify the address
contract MyAuth {
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ecrecover from Geth and web3.eth.sign
I have tried to use ecrecover() to verify the signature of a message.
I have looked at lots of references here and elsewhere, like:
https://lab-blog.ey.com/2016/12/19/ecrecover/
How does one ...
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web3.eth.sign not returning a valid signature - Or how else does this work?
EDIT: Problem Solved; working example of login below
I use the sha3 of a message I want to sign with eth.sign
m = web3.sha3("Please work.")
I then runeth.sign(eth.coinbase, m)
And it returns me: ...
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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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Getting an address from ethereumjs-utils ecrecover
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 ...
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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 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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