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eip: 191
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title: Signed Data Standard
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author: Martin Holst Swende (@holiman), Nick Johnson <arachnid@notdot.net>
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status: Draft
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type: Standards Track
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category: ERC
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created: 2016-01-20
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---
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# Abstract
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This ERC proposes a specification about how to handle signed data in Ethereum contracts.
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# Motivation
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Several multisignature wallet implementations have been created which accepts `presigned` transactions. A `presigned` transaction is a chunk of binary `signed_data`, along with signature (`r`, `s` and `v`). The interpretation of the `signed_data` has not been specified, leading to several problems:
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* Standard Ethereum transactions can be submitted as `signed_data`. An Ethereum transaction can be unpacked, into the following components: `RLP<nonce, gasPrice, startGas, to, value, data>` (hereby called `RLPdata`), `r`, `s` and `v`. If there are no syntactical constraints on `signed_data`, this means that `RLPdata` can be used as a syntactically valid `presigned` transaction.
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* Multisignature wallets have also had the problem that a `presigned` transaction has not been tied to a particular `validator`, i.e a specific wallet. Example:
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1. Users `A`, `B` and `C` have the `2/3`-wallet `X`
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2. Users `A`, `B` and `D` have the `2/3`-wallet `Y`
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3. User `A` and `B` submites `presigned` transaction to `X`.
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4. Attacker can now reuse their presigned transactions to `X`, and submit to `Y`.
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## Specification
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We propose the following format for `signed_data`
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```
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0x19 <1 byte version> <version specific data> <data to sign>.
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```
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Version `0` has `<20 byte address>` for the version specific data, and the `address` is the intended validator. In the case of a Multisig wallet, that is the wallet's own address .
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The initial `0x19` byte is intended to ensure that the `signed_data` is not valid [RLP](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/RLP)
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> For a single byte whose value is in the [0x00, 0x7f] range, that byte is its own RLP encoding.
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That means that any `signed_data` cannot be one RLP-structure, but a 1-byte `RLP` payload followed by something else. Thus, any ERC-191 `signed_data` can never be an Ethereum transaction.
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Additionally, `0x19` has been chosen because since ethereum/go-ethereum#2940 , the following is prepended before hashing in personal_sign:
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```
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"\x19Ethereum Signed Message:\n" + len(message).
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```
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Using `0x19` thus makes it possible to extend the scheme by defining a version `0x45` (`E`) to handle these kinds of signatures.
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### Registry of version bytes
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| Version byte | EIP | Description
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| ------------ | -------------- | -----------
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| `0x00` | [191][eip-191] | Data with intended validator
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| `0x01` | [712][eip-712] | Structured data
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| `0x45` | [191][eip-191] | `personal_sign` messages
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[eip-191]: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-191
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[eip-712]: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-712
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### Example
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function submitTransactionPreSigned(address destination, uint value, bytes data, uint nonce, uint8 v, bytes32 r, bytes32 s)
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public
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returns (bytes32 transactionHash)
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{
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// Arguments when calculating hash to validate
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// 1: byte(0x19) - the initial 0x19 byte
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// 2: byte(0) - the version byte
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// 3: this - the validator address
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// 4-7 : Application specific data
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transactionHash = keccak256(byte(0x19),byte(0),this,destination, value, data, nonce);
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sender = ecrecover(transactionHash, v, r, s);
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// ...
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}
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## Copyright
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Copyright and related rights waived via [CC0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).
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