I was thinking along the lines of an offline program where you would simply paste in your private key in one field and your message in another field and the program would generate a signed message as the output with the option of including a timestamp if required.
An online service might work if the code was written in verifiable JavaScript and executed client-side.
An online service might work if the code was written in verifiable JavaScript and executed client-side.
Well actually that already exists:
https://brainwallet.github.io/#sign
But to be honest I don't think that's very useful. Do you usually have private keys as plain text rather than on a wallet?
However I do use their verify functionality quite often:
https://brainwallet.github.io/#verify
Hmm... Didn't know that Brainwallet.org supported this feature. Well yeah, that's pretty much exactly what I had in mind. I thought an offline way to do this would be a good idea since I assumed that the process was typically done via the command line which tends to freak newbies out.
How to sign a message for a bitcoin address? I saw that on Bitcoin wallet but I don't know how to use that feature? Please help me !
Thanks a lot !
Thanks a lot !
Here you go:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/how-to-sign-a-message-990345
