signmessage

Command

pacprotocol-cli signmessage "address" "message"

Sign a message with the private key of an address

Arguments

address *

(string, required)

The PAC address to use for the private key.

message *

(string, required)

The message to create a signature of.

Examples

Unlock the wallet for 30 seconds

pacprotocol-cli walletpassphrase "mypassphrase" 30

Create the signature

pacprotocol-cli signmessage "XwnLY9Tf7Zsef8gMGL2fhWA9ZmMjt4KPwG" "my message"

Verify the signature

pacprotocol-cli verifymessage "XwnLY9Tf7Zsef8gMGL2fhWA9ZmMjt4KPwG" "signature" "my message"

As json rpc

curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "signmessage", "params": ["XwnLY9Tf7Zsef8gMGL2fhWA9ZmMjt4KPwG", "my message"] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:1111/

Result

"signature" #(string) The signature of the message encoded in base 64

---

Running following help command

pacprotocol-cli help signmessage

Will produce following output:

signmessage "address" "message"

Sign a message with the private key of an address

Arguments:

1. "address" (string, required) The PAC address to use for the private key.

2. "message" (string, required) The message to create a signature of.

Result:

"signature" (string) The signature of the message encoded in base 64

Examples:

Unlock the wallet for 30 seconds

> pacprotocol-cli walletpassphrase "mypassphrase" 30

Create the signature

> pacprotocol-cli signmessage "XwnLY9Tf7Zsef8gMGL2fhWA9ZmMjt4KPwG" "my message"

Verify the signature

> pacprotocol-cli verifymessage "XwnLY9Tf7Zsef8gMGL2fhWA9ZmMjt4KPwG" "signature" "my message"

As json rpc

> curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "signmessage", "params": ["XwnLY9Tf7Zsef8gMGL2fhWA9ZmMjt4KPwG", "my message"] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:1111/