Sign & Verify Message using NaCl
The following example shows how to sign and verify a message with NaCl (pronouced "salt"), which is a Networking and Cryptography library used in util-crypto.
const { stringToU8a, u8aToHex } = require('@polkadot/util');
const { naclEncrypt, naclKeypairFromSeed, naclSign, naclVerify, randomAsU8a } = require('@polkadot/util-crypto');
async function main () {
// Create account seed for Alice as fallback if generated mnemonic not valid
const seedAlice = 'Alice'.padEnd(32, ' ');
// Generate new public/secret keypair for Alice from the supplied seed
const { secretKey, publicKey } = naclKeypairFromSeed(stringToU8a(seedAlice));
// Encrypt message. Create Uint8Array's filled with random bytes of specified length
const secret = randomAsU8a(32);
const messagePreEncryption = stringToU8a('please send me DOTs');
const noncePreEncryption = randomAsU8a(24);
const { encrypted, nonce } = naclEncrypt(messagePreEncryption, secret, noncePreEncryption);
// Sign the message with a valid signature
const messageSignature = naclSign(encrypted, secretKey);
console.log(`Message signature: ${u8aToHex(messageSignature)}`);
// Validate that the message was correctly signed
const isValidSignature = naclVerify(encrypted, messageSignature, publicKey);
console.log(`Was the message correctly signed? ${isValidSignature}`);
}
main().catch(console.error).finally(_ => process.exit());