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Bitcoin => Development & Technical Discussion => Topic started by: piuk on January 06, 2013, 01:18:22 AM



Title: [Bounty] Sign & Verify Message in Java
Post by: piuk on January 06, 2013, 01:18:22 AM
Looking for someone to implement Bitcoin-Qt's sign and verify message functionality in Java. Using either bouncycastle or the Java SE crypto libs.

15 BTC bounty.


Title: Re: [Bounty] Sign & Verify Message in Java
Post by: Mike Hearn on January 06, 2013, 12:43:52 PM
Anyone who attempts this should note that it'll require you to implement ECDSA key recovery:

   https://github.com/sipa/bitcoin/commit/6e223c405988a1002eeeee69db88a1128a38b0a3



Title: Re: [Bounty] Sign & Verify Message in Java
Post by: jim618 on January 06, 2013, 01:08:27 PM
Preferably open source as sign-and-verify would be very useful in MultiBit too.


Title: Re: [Bounty] Sign & Verify Message in Java
Post by: Mike Hearn on January 06, 2013, 10:45:27 PM
I implemented this in bitcoinj and claimed the bounty.


Title: Re: [Bounty] Sign & Verify Message in Java
Post by: jim618 on January 07, 2013, 08:02:19 AM
Nice one Mike !
:-)


Title: Re: [Bounty] Sign & Verify Message in Java
Post by: Jouke on January 07, 2013, 09:48:40 AM
I implemented this in bitcoinj and claimed the bounty.

\o/ nice!