Questions tagged [ecrecover]
Questions about EcRecover, a function of the programming language Solidity to verify a signature on the blockchain
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Ecrecover security level for fixed message signature verification
usually ownership of a private key is checked by providing some random message to user and ask him to sign that random message.
I want to know if security goes below acceptable level If instead of ...
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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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ecrecover function in solidity [duplicate]
how to extract sub-bytes r,s from bytes(signature). Is there any function to split the bytes into sub-bytes of desirable length starting from some fixed index?
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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 0x0 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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
