personal_ecRecover

Returns the address that produced a signature over a message signed with personal_sign or eth_sign.

Geth reference · All supported methods

Parameters

Parameters are positional, in the order below.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
Message	Hexadecimal bytes	Yes	The message that was signed.
Signature	Hexadecimal bytes	Yes	The signature.

Return value

The signing account’s 20-byte address.

Example

Replace <gateway-url> with your gateway base URL and <service-url> with the chain’s service path, such as service/ethereum.

curl -X POST "<gateway-url>/<service-url>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"personal_ecRecover","params":["0xdeadbeaf","0xa3f20717a250c2b0b729b7e5becbff67fdaef7e0699da4de7ca5895b02a170a12d887fd3b17bfdce3481f10bea41f45ba9f709d39ce8325427b57afcfc994cee1b"]}'

Illustrative response; values depend on the selected network and request:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "result": "0xc94770007dda54cf92009bff0de90c06f603a09f"
}