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signmessagewithprivkey

Command#

pacprotocol-cli signmessagewithprivkey "privkey" "message"

Sign a message with the private key of an address

Arguments#

privkey *#

(string, required)

The private key to sign the message with.

message *#

(string, required)

The message to create a signature of.

Examples#

Create the signature

pacprotocol-cli signmessagewithprivkey "privkey" "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": "signmessagewithprivkey", "params": ["privkey", "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 signmessagewithprivkey

Will produce following output:

signmessagewithprivkey "privkey" "message"
Sign a message with the private key of an address
Arguments:
1. "privkey" (string, required) The private key to sign the message with.
2. "message" (string, required) The message to create a signature of.
Result:
"signature" (string) The signature of the message encoded in base 64
Examples:
Create the signature
> pacprotocol-cli signmessagewithprivkey "privkey" "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": "signmessagewithprivkey", "params": ["privkey", "my message"] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:1111/