Web3.js: Request: ecrecover

[MrChico]

Since we have web3.eth.sign, I'm thinking that it would only make sense to also have ecrecover.

[frozeman]

This would need to be added to the node as RPC API. Makes probably sense, though we want to move away from singing inside the node.

I plan to add signing and account generation functionality to web3 directly, so we could add this then

[MrChico]

But ecrecover can be done without access to the accounts, so we wouldn't need access to the node?

[izqui]

Hi! What is the status of this?

It seems that web3.eth.sign is broken since this https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/pull/2940 got merged into geth, almost a month ago.

Would a PR implementing 'personal_sign' and 'personal_ecRecover' be welcomed?

[frozeman]

We have that now: http://web3js.readthedocs.io/en/1.0/web3-eth-accounts.html#recover