Sign a text message with NBitcoin

Question

Sign a text message with NBitcoin

aboimpinto opened this issue a year ago · comments

Paulo Aboim Pinto commented a year ago

Hello,

I could not find a way to sign a simple text message with NBitcoin.

Can you point me in the right direction so I can sign the message and verify?

thanks
Paulo Aboim Pinto

Dan Gershony commented a year ago

#1094

Dan Gershony · Answer 1 · Thu Sep 21 2023 18:46:04 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

You can't its been deleted on main repo, use a fork of NBitcoin like blockcore or something

Paulo Aboim Pinto · Answer 2 · Fri Sep 22 2023 01:11:31 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Why was this feature removed?

Paulo Aboim Pinto · Answer 3 · Mon Sep 25 2023 22:32:52 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I didn't like the way this thread went ...
I'm no expert in the Bitcoin protocol but I know Satoshi Nakomoto signed a message on the genesis block and now using NBitcoin we cannot do it...
Am I right with this comment?

Dan Gershony · Answer 4 · Mon Sep 25 2023 23:02:45 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

You are totally right imo, but for the sake of keeping politics out of code (unfortunately this is not always the case) just use a fork of NBitcoin or implement yourself the message signing, it's not that hard.

https://github.com/block-core/blockcore/blob/master/src/Blockcore/NBitcoin/Key.cs#L121

Paulo Aboim Pinto · Answer 5 · Mon Sep 25 2023 23:23:11 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I agree ... politics should be out of the code ...
thanks!!