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verifymessage

verifymessage "address" "signature" "message"

Verify a signed message

# Unlock the wallet for 30 seconds
yerbas-cli walletpassphrase "mypassphrase" 30

# Create the signature
yerbas-cli signmessage "XwnLY9Tf7Zsef8gMGL2fhWA9ZmMjt4KPwG" "my message"

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

Arguments​

ArgumentTypeDescription
"address"(string)The base58check encoded address
Arguments:
1. "address"         (string, required) The yerbas address to use for the signature.
2. "signature"       (string, required) The signature provided by the signer in base 64 encoding (see signmessage).
3. "message"         (string, required) The message that was signed.

Output​

ResultTypeDescription
.........
Result:
true|false   (boolean) If the signature is verified or not.

Examples​

curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "verifymessage", "params": ["XwnLY9Tf7Zsef8gMGL2fhWA9ZmMjt4KPwG", "signature", "my message"] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:9998/