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Cannot verify signed message #5

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kevacoin-project opened this issue Jan 28, 2020 · 1 comment

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kevacoin-project commented Jan 28, 2020

Steps to reproduce:

Dump the private key:
kevacoin-cli dumpprivkey <V_pub_key>
Sign a message with private key:
`kevacoin-cli signmessagewithprivkey M_priv_key "test_message"
Verify the message:
kevacoin-cli verifymessage <V_pub_key> <signed_msg> test_message

Step 3 returns an error message:

error code: -3
error message:
Address does not refer to key

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kevacoin-project commented Jan 28, 2020 •

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This is a known issue in Bitcoin-core:
bitcoin#10542

Kevacoin by default uses SegWit address, but SegWit address does not support message signing/verification yet.

There is a PR to solve this issue, but it has not been merged into Bitcoin-core yet:
bitcoin#16440

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