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    internal/ethapi: add personal_sign and fix eth_sign to hash message (#2940) · b59c8399
    bas-vk authored and Felix Lange's avatar Felix Lange committed
    This commit includes several API changes:
    
    - The behavior of eth_sign is changed. It now accepts an arbitrary
      message, prepends the well-known string
    
            \x19Ethereum Signed Message:\n<length of message>
    
      hashes the result using keccak256 and calculates the signature of
      the hash. This breaks backwards compatability!
      
    - personal_sign(hash, address [, password]) is added. It has the same
      semantics as eth_sign but also accepts a password. The private key
      used to sign the hash is temporarily unlocked in the scope of the
      request.
      
    - personal_recover(message, signature) is added and returns the
      address for the account that created a signature.
    b59c8399
    internal/ethapi: add personal_sign and fix eth_sign to hash message (#2940)
    bas-vk authored and Felix Lange's avatar Felix Lange committed
    This commit includes several API changes:
    
    - The behavior of eth_sign is changed. It now accepts an arbitrary
      message, prepends the well-known string
    
            \x19Ethereum Signed Message:\n<length of message>
    
      hashes the result using keccak256 and calculates the signature of
      the hash. This breaks backwards compatability!
      
    - personal_sign(hash, address [, password]) is added. It has the same
      semantics as eth_sign but also accepts a password. The private key
      used to sign the hash is temporarily unlocked in the scope of the
      request.
      
    - personal_recover(message, signature) is added and returns the
      address for the account that created a signature.
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