Signing Key

new ethers . utils . SigningKey ( privateKey )

Create a new SigningKey for privateKey.

signingKey . privateKey string< DataHexstring< 32 > >

The private key for this Signing Key.

signingKey . publicKey string< DataHexstring< 65 > >

The uncompressed public key for this Signing Key. It will always be 65 bytes (130 nibbles) and begine with 0x04.

signingKey . compressedPublicKey string< DataHexstring< 33 > >

The compressed public key for this Signing Key. It will always be 33 bytes (66 nibbles) and begine with either 0x02 or 0x03.

signingKey . signDisgest ( digest ) Signature

Sign the digest and return the signature.

signingKey . computeSharedSecret ( otherKey ) string< DataHexstring< 32 > >

Compute the ECDH shared secret with otherKey. The otherKey may be either a public key or a private key, but generally will be a public key from another party.

It is best practice that each party computes the hash of this before using it as a symmetric key.

SigningKey . isSigningKey ( anObject ) boolean

Returns true if anObject is a SigningKey.

Other Functions

ethers . utils . verifyMessage ( message , signature ) string< Address >

Returns the address that signed message producing signature. The signature may have a non-canonical v (i.e. does not need to be 27 or 28), in which case it will be normalized to compute the `recoveryParam` which will then be used to compute the address; this allows systems which use the v to encode additional data (such as EIP-155) to be used since the v parameter is still completely non-ambiguous.

ethers . utils . recocverPublicKey ( digest , signature ) string< DataHexstring< 65 > >

ethers . utils . computePublicKey ( key [ , compressed = false ] ) string< DataHexstring >

Computes the public key of key, optionally compressing it. The key can be any form of public key (compressed or uncompressed) or a private key.