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I wanna ask about the parameters s and b in the cryptographic function:

sp.check_signature(k, s, b)

the second parameter s: is the string that we should inject in the blockchain or the signature of the value returned by the Forge operation?

the third parameter b: is the value returned by the Forge operation?

Thank you in advance.

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The SmartPy manual (https://smartpy.io/demo/reference.html#_cryptography) says that:

sp.check_signature(k, s, b): Determine whether the signature s (a sp.TSignature value) has been produced by signing b (a sp.TBytes value) with the private key corresponding to k (a sp.TKey public key value).

It simply computes a boolean after checking that the data in 'b' has been signed by 'k' into 's'.

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  • So we can siply use it this way: sp.verify(sp.check_signature(params.k, params.s, params.b) == True) to evaluate the signature? – Daly Feb 1 '20 at 19:43
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    Yes. More properly, the == True is as always useless so: sp.verify(sp.check_signature(params.k, params.s, params.b)) is typically the right way to do it. It's used everywhere in the State Channel template smartpy.io/demo/index.html?template=stateChannels.py. – FFF Feb 1 '20 at 23:23
  • Thank you very much ! – Daly Feb 2 '20 at 0:06

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