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Topic: Wrong signature on Electrum - page 2. (Read 338 times)

legendary
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December 05, 2019, 09:08:08 PM
#4
When I sign the message with one of my BTC addresses on Electrum and then verify it on the same wallet it says "wrong signature". The same message signed with other BTC addresses is correct.
I don't know what is your true issues because you did not describe yours in enough details.

One advice I can give you is:
When you sign a message, any minor difference in contents of your message (in characters, space, line break, ie.) will result in different signature (with a same bitcoin address). Among them, space is hard to discover, and people can unintentionally make space in their message.

In Electrum, you can see there are three sections (when signing a message):

1) Message
2) Address
3) Signature

As being said, the most common issue comes from the first section. You can try it (with a same address) with three following contents:
1.1. I am user A, userid = x, today is y, and I sign the message
1.2. I am user  A, userid = x, today is y, and I sign the message
1.3. I am user a, my userid = x, today is y, and I sign the message

Noticing the additional one more space in the 1.2. (user  A, instead of user A in 1.1). You will get different signatures and yeah when you verify it later, you might get failed results.
legendary
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December 05, 2019, 04:10:08 PM
#3
What version of Electrum you currently using?
I tried verifying the sign message in my Electrum 3.3.4 it's working fine without issue.

You might be using a fake Electrum so tell us if where did you download the Electrum installer(It should be downloaded from electrum.org)? and let us know if what OS you are using?

If you are using the orig Electrum try to use the latest version of Electrum and test it again.
hero member
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December 05, 2019, 03:39:51 PM
#2
You need to provide more details, I have already signed and checked many messages using Electrum with Legacy and Segwit addresses. Is your sign generated normally? Have you tried to verify this message in another verifier?

Try putting your message / address / sign here so we can test as well.
newbie
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Merit: 0
December 05, 2019, 03:02:05 PM
#1
When I sign the message with one of my BTC addresses on Electrum and then verify it on the same wallet it says "wrong signature". The same message signed with other BTC addresses is correct. How to resolve this issue?
The address is native segwit (starts with bc1).
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