[GIUDE] HOW TO SIGN MESSAGE WITH ETHEREUM ADDRESS

[Woodie]

Hope this is the correct thread for this

Many of us might be very familiar with signing of a message with our bitcoin addresses, if not follow this guide < https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=990345.0 > . Getting back where we were this guide builds on that knowledge and we shall be signing a message with our ethereum addresses this time around.

For our basic format we shall use the basic code

Code:

-----BEGIN ETHEREUM SIGNED MESSAGE-----
<insert message here>
-----BEGIN SIGNATURE-----
<insert address here>
<insert signature here>
-----END ETHEREUM SIGNED MESSAGE-----

To show how this works will use the code below

Code:

-----BEGIN ETHEREUM SIGNED MESSAGE-----
This is < woodie > from bitcointalk.org and today is < 2019.04.24 >
-----BEGIN SIGNATURE-----
0xCE6bACaaA99745ADA0082D0b36207AF0fCf471a1
IFtLgDZCpvfw0DT70RCLcYXj3Dbjf68sc6pj/C+u5K6IC8PIhHE4Y/ldllt1/yhrZpVW/shFRf7rxQYdsW/CcBM=
-----END ETHEREUM SIGNED MESSAGE-----

A Big shout out to Shorena for allowing me to make THIS remix 

Index:

• Creating a signature
  
  • MyEtherWallet (MEW)
  • MyCrypto
• Verifying a signature
  
  • MyEtherWallet (MEW)
  • MyCrypto.com
  • Etherscan (web)
• License (CC BY-SA 3.0)
  
• Services/wallets that currently can not be used to sign a message
  
  • WILL UPDATE
  • WILL UPDATE
  • WILL UPDATE

Creating a Signature:
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MyEtherWallet (MEW)

FIRST STEP : Visit  https://www.myetherwallet.com/ which opens up with a new user interface

SECOND STEP : Acces your wallet with whats applicable to you

THIRD STEP: Once logged in and seeing your dashboard, scroll to your left hand side menu where you should see MESSAGE, click on that, then sign message

MyCrypto.com
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Requires either of the following;

• Desktop Wallet downloaded
• A Ledger Wallet
• Parity Signer mobile app
• Web3 extension...like metamask

Verifying a Signature:
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COPIED SIGNED MESSAGE FROM "MEW"

Code:

{
  "address": "0xce6bacaaa99745ada0082d0b36207af0fcf471a1",
  "msg": "This is < woodie > from bitcointalk.org and today is < 2019.04.24 >",
  "sig": "0x5af59bbbe57405330a33137b025e1b5eb42508f4ca6a4064c6ca93e8f8421c3b416e2052085344db77bace32b0824734799a9a28d8cc43ad6e8764a83cf2b9c11b",
  "version": "3",
  "signer": "MEW"
}

MyEtherWallet (MEW)

Etherscan (web)
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link: https://etherscan.io/verifySig

Mycrypto.com
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License (CC BY-SA 3.0):
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You are free to:

• Share - copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
• Adapt - remix, transform, and build upon the material

for any purpose, even commercially. I cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.

Under the following terms:

• Attribution - You must give appropriate credit (mentioning my name [shorena] is enough), provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.
• ShareAlike - If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license (see link).

link -> https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

changelog:

Code:

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[Odonko]

Thanks for such a valuable information mate, i once asked by a team to sign a signature to prove that the Ethereum wallet address was mine but i did not do it becuase i thought it's some sort of scam lol. Anyway thanks for making this piece of information available, i believe it would be off great help to other users who might need help with signing signatures on their addresses.

[AB de Royse777]

There are several tutorials for signing ETH however your effort should be appreciated. Good job.

The curious case for me is that which tool you used to create those gif images like video?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers :-)

[Woodie]

Thanks for such a valuable information mate, i once asked by a team to sign a signature to prove that the Ethereum wallet address was mine but i did not do it becuase i thought it's some sort of scam lol. Anyway thanks for making this piece of information available, i believe it would be off great help to other users who might need help with signing signatures on their addresses.

I would have thought the same but signing messages with eth is now very possible

~snip~

The curious case for me is that which tool you used to create those gif images like video?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers :-)

i could inbox you the tools i used incase you still interested to know

[Perfect35]

This is a good thread and I really appreciate it, because it will be helpful for SK many people who are yet to know how to sign message.
If you do not mind, I would also like to materials you used for the video and other useful materials.
I greatly appreciate your effort.

[Adriano2010]

Thanks for creating and share this tutorial, will be indeed usefull for a lot of people who don't know how to sign a message and also for new users.

[guoyu78]

This is a very nice one, I think this is the kind of post we need on this forum that are relevant and would really help the Crypto community especially those who are new to it and want to know how to sign a message or want to sign a message for a purpose, this could be looking small but it is very educative and I think you should keep up with the good work and I know one day people will begin to look for you and pay you for consultations on Blockchain projects.

[AB de Royse777]

i could inbox you the tools i used incase you still interested to know

Feel free to PM me bud. Thank you very much in advance.

Cheers :-)

[Kavelj22]

Signing a message with Metamak is missing in the list op. This tutorial can be added too:
Tutorial on How to Sign a message on your MetaMask with MEW.

i could inbox you the tools i used incase you still interested to know

Feel free to PM me bud. Thank you very much in advance.

Cheers :-)

I would like to know those tools too. Would anyone pm me with necessary references or just share it here. I am planning to create a topic in my local board about how to sign messages in different blockchains and i think those tools would help me a lot.

If op give me the permission, i would translate this topic adding some updates as MEW has been quite changed since last year the time of creating this topic.

[ryzaadit]

-snip-

Is not mising.

If you read the thread, there has some step "choose which one you want to access the address" from "Metamask" or other was also one of them if you see the image. Both of the tutorials was still same from my opinion, so there is nothing to add.

[Kavelj22]

-snip-

Is not mising.

If you read the thread, there has some step "choose which one you want to access the address" from "Metamask" or other was also one of them if you see the image. Both of the tutorials was still same from my opinion, so there is nothing to add.

Thank you ryzaadit. I didn't notice that detail because i have checked op from a general sight just to see if i can translate it properly as i asked the permission in my previous comment.
Do you know about the tools on how to create animated pictures and use it with bbcode?

[andrioshane10]

can it work on android since i dont have any computer with me.. I really want to recover my old btt since 2017..But i dont how since my email was been change without may permission.