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Summary

Sign a message with the private key of an address

Description

Sign a message with the private key of an address Requires wallet passphrase to be set with walletpassphrase call if wallet is encrypted.

Arguments

• address (STR, required): The qbit address to use for the private key.
• message (STR, required): The message to create a signature of.

Results

• signature (STR): The signature of the message encoded in base 64

Examples

Unlock the wallet for 30 seconds

qbit-cli walletpassphrase "mypassphrase" 30

Create the signature

qbit-cli signmessage "QbURpsSa6XFTg61KScF1yntyVDVb1742e2" "my message"

Verify the signature

qbit-cli verifymessage "QbURpsSa6XFTg61KScF1yntyVDVb1742e2" "signature" "my message"

As a JSON-RPC call

curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": "curltest", "method": "signmessage", "params": ["QbURpsSa6XFTg61KScF1yntyVDVb1742e2", "my message"]}' -H 'content-type: application/json' http://127.0.0.1:8352/