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signmessagewithprivkey

signmessagewithprivkey "privkey" "message"

Sign a message with the private key of an address

# Create the signature
yerbas-cli signmessagewithprivkey "privkey" "my message"

# Verify the signature
yerbas-cli verifymessage "XwnLY9Tf7Zsef8gMGL2fhWA9ZmMjt4KPwG" "signature" "my message"

Arguments​

ArgumentTypeDescription
"address"(string)The base58check encoded 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.

Output​

ResultTypeDescription
.........
Result:
"signature"          (string) The signature of the message encoded in base 64

Examples​

curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "signmessagewithprivkey", "params": ["privkey", "my message"] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:9998/