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Use key recovery for message signatures 

Instead of encoding the public key inside the signature string, use
key recovery to do verification. This allows 88-character base64-encoded
signature strings instead of 188-character ones.
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Pieter Wuille 2011-09-21 17:03:28 +02:00
parent 01cc526318
commit 3a570dc80a
1 changed files with 9 additions and 25 deletions
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src/bitcoinrpc.cpp
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@ -554,15 +554,10 @@ Value signmessage(const Array& params, bool fHelp)
ss << strMessage;
vector<unsigned char> vchSig;
if (!key.Sign(Hash(ss.begin(), ss.end()), vchSig))
if (!key.SignCompact(Hash(ss.begin(), ss.end()), vchSig))
throw JSONRPCError(-5, "Sign failed");
CDataStream sres(SER_NETWORK);
sres << key.GetPubKey(); // public key
sres << vchSig; // signature;
vector<unsigned char> vchRet(sres.begin(), sres.end());
return EncodeBase64(&vchRet[0], vchRet.size());
return EncodeBase64(&vchSig[0], vchSig.size());
}
Value verifymessage(const Array& params, bool fHelp)
@ -581,31 +576,20 @@ Value verifymessage(const Array& params, bool fHelp)
throw JSONRPCError(-3, "Invalid address");
bool fInvalid = false;
vector<unsigned char> vchResult = DecodeBase64(strSign.c_str(), &fInvalid);
vector<unsigned char> vchSig = DecodeBase64(strSign.c_str(), &fInvalid);
if (fInvalid)
throw JSONRPCError(-5, "Malformed base64 encoding");
CDataStream sres(vchResult);
std::vector<unsigned char> vchPubKey;
sres >> vchPubKey;
std::vector<unsigned char> vchSig;
sres >> vchSig;
CDataStream ss(SER_GETHASH);
ss << strMessageMagic;
ss << strMessage;
CKey key;
if (!key.SetPubKey(vchPubKey))
throw JSONRPCError(-5, "Invalid public key in signature");
if (key.GetAddress() == addr)
{
CDataStream ss(SER_GETHASH);
ss << strMessageMagic;
ss << strMessage;
return key.Verify(Hash(ss.begin(), ss.end()), vchSig);
}
else
if (!key.SetCompactSignature(Hash(ss.begin(), ss.end()), vchSig))
return false;
return (key.GetAddress() == addr);
}