sign

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The sign method takes a transaction in JSON format and a secret key, and returns a signed binary representation of the transaction. The result is always different, even when you provide the same transaction JSON and secret key. To contribute one signature to a multi-signed transaction, use the sign_for command instead.

Caution: Unless you run the rippled server yourself, you should do local signing with RippleAPI instead of using this command. An untrustworthy server could change the transaction before signing it, or use your secret key to sign additional arbitrary transactions as if they came from you.

Request Format

An example of the request format:

WebSocket

{
  "id": 2,
  "command": "sign",
  "tx_json" : {
      "TransactionType" : "Payment",
      "Account" : "rf1BiGeXwwQoi8Z2ueFYTEXSwuJYfV2Jpn",
      "Destination" : "ra5nK24KXen9AHvsdFTKHSANinZseWnPcX",
      "Amount" : {
         "currency" : "USD",
         "value" : "1",
         "issuer" : "rf1BiGeXwwQoi8Z2ueFYTEXSwuJYfV2Jpn"
      }
   },
   "secret" : "s████████████████████████████",
   "offline": false,
   "fee_mult_max": 1000
}

JSON-RPC

{
    "method": "sign",
    "params": [
        {
            "offline": false,
            "secret": "s████████████████████████████",
            "tx_json": {
                "Account": "rf1BiGeXwwQoi8Z2ueFYTEXSwuJYfV2Jpn",
                "Amount": {
                    "currency": "USD",
                    "issuer": "rf1BiGeXwwQoi8Z2ueFYTEXSwuJYfV2Jpn",
                    "value": "1"
                },
                "Destination": "ra5nK24KXen9AHvsdFTKHSANinZseWnPcX",
                "TransactionType": "Payment"
            },
            "fee_mult_max": 1000
        }
    ]
}

Commandline

#Syntax: sign secret tx_json [offline]
rippled sign s████████████████████████████ '{"TransactionType": "Payment", "Account": "rf1BiGeXwwQoi8Z2ueFYTEXSwuJYfV2Jpn", "Destination": "ra5nK24KXen9AHvsdFTKHSANinZseWnPcX", "Amount": { "currency": "USD", "value": "1", "issuer" : "rf1BiGeXwwQoi8Z2ueFYTEXSwuJYfV2Jpn" }, "Sequence": 360, "Fee": "10000"}' offline

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To sign a transaction, you must provide a secret key that can authorize the transaction. You can do this in a few ways:

Provide a secret value and omit the key_type field. This value can be formatted as [base58][] seed, RFC-1751, hexadecimal, or as a string passphrase. (secp256k1 keys only)
Provide a key_type value and exactly one of seed, seed_hex, or passphrase. Omit the secret field. (Not supported by the commandline syntax.)

The request includes the following parameters:

`Field`	Type	Description
`tx_json`	Object	Transaction definition in JSON format
`secret`	String	(Optional) Secret key of the account supplying the transaction, used to sign it. Do not send your secret to untrusted servers or through unsecured network connections. Cannot be used with `key_type`, `seed`, `seed_hex`, or `passphrase`.
`seed`	String	(Optional) Secret key of the account supplying the transaction, used to sign it. Must be in [base58][] format. If provided, you must also specify the `key_type`. Cannot be used with `secret`, `seed_hex`, or `passphrase`.
`seed_hex`	String	(Optional) Secret key of the account supplying the transaction, used to sign it. Must be in hexadecimal format. If provided, you must also specify the `key_type`. Cannot be used with `secret`, `seed`, or `passphrase`.
`passphrase`	String	(Optional) Secret key of the account supplying the transaction, used to sign it, as a string passphrase. If provided, you must also specify the `key_type`. Cannot be used with `secret`, `seed`, or `seed_hex`.
`key_type`	String	(Optional) Type of cryptographic key provided in this request. Valid types are `secp256k1` or `ed25519`. Defaults to `secp256k1`. Cannot be used with `secret`. Caution: Ed25519 support is experimental.
`offline`	Boolean	(Optional, defaults to false) If true, when constructing the transaction, do not try to automatically fill in or validate values.
`build_path`	Boolean	(Optional) If provided for a Payment-type transaction, automatically fill in the `Paths` field before signing. Caution: The server looks for the presence or absence of this field, not its value. This behavior may change.
`fee_mult_max`	Integer	(Optional, defaults to 10; recommended value 1000) Limits how high the automatically-provided `Fee` field can be. Signing fails with the error `rpcHIGH_FEE` if the current load multiplier on the transaction cost is greater than (`fee_mult_max` ÷ `fee_div_max`). Ignored if you specify the `Fee` field of the transaction (transaction cost).
`fee_div_max`	Integer	(Optional, defaults to 1) Signing fails with the error `rpcHIGH_FEE` if the current load multiplier on the transaction cost is greater than (`fee_mult_max` ÷ `fee_div_max`). Ignored if you specify the `Fee` field of the transaction (transaction cost). [New in: rippled 0.30.1][]

Auto-Fillable Fields

The server automatically tries to fill in certain fields in tx_json (the Transaction object) automatically if you omit them. The server provides the following fields before signing, unless the request specified offline as true:

Sequence - The server automatically uses the next Sequence number from the sender's account information.
- Caution: The next sequence number for the account is not incremented until this transaction is applied. If you sign multiple transactions without submitting and waiting for the response to each one, you must manually provide the correct sequence numbers for each transaction after the first.
Fee - If you omit the Fee parameter, the server tries to fill in an appropriate transaction cost automatically. On the production XRP Ledger, this fails with rpcHIGH_FEE unless you provide an appropriate fee_mult_max value.
- The fee_mult_max and fee_div_max parameters limit how high the automatically-provided transaction cost can be, in terms of the load-scaling multiplier that gets applied to the reference transaction cost. The default settings return an error if the automatically-provided value would use greater than a 10× multiplier. However, the production XRP Ledger typically has a 1000× load multiplier.
- The commandline syntax does not support fee_mult_max and fee_div_max. For the production XRP Ledger, you must provide a Fee value.
- Caution: A malicious server can specify an excessively high transaction cost, ignoring the values of fee_mult_max and fee_div_max.
Paths - For Payment-type transactions (excluding XRP-to-XRP transfers), the Paths field can be automatically filled, as if you did a ripple_path_find. Only filled if build_path is provided.

Response Format

An example of a successful response:

WebSocket

{
  "id": 2,
  "status": "success",
  "type": "response",
  "result": {
    "tx_blob": "1200002280000000240000016861D4838D7EA4C6800000000000000000000000000055534400000000004B4E9C06F24296074F7BC48F92A97916C6DC5EA9684000000000002710732103AB40A0490F9B7ED8DF29D246BF2D6269820A0EE7742ACDD457BEA7C7D0931EDB7446304402200E5C2DD81FDF0BE9AB2A8D797885ED49E804DBF28E806604D878756410CA98B102203349581946B0DDA06B36B35DBC20EDA27552C1F167BCF5C6ECFF49C6A46F858081144B4E9C06F24296074F7BC48F92A97916C6DC5EA983143E9D4A2B8AA0780F682D136F7A56D6724EF53754",
    "tx_json": {
      "Account": "rf1BiGeXwwQoi8Z2ueFYTEXSwuJYfV2Jpn",
      "Amount": {
        "currency": "USD",
        "issuer": "rf1BiGeXwwQoi8Z2ueFYTEXSwuJYfV2Jpn",
        "value": "1"
      },
      "Destination": "ra5nK24KXen9AHvsdFTKHSANinZseWnPcX",
      "Fee": "10000",
      "Flags": 2147483648,
      "Sequence": 360,
      "SigningPubKey": "03AB40A0490F9B7ED8DF29D246BF2D6269820A0EE7742ACDD457BEA7C7D0931EDB",
      "TransactionType": "Payment",
      "TxnSignature": "304402200E5C2DD81FDF0BE9AB2A8D797885ED49E804DBF28E806604D878756410CA98B102203349581946B0DDA06B36B35DBC20EDA27552C1F167BCF5C6ECFF49C6A46F8580",
      "hash": "4D5D90890F8D49519E4151938601EF3D0B30B16CD6A519D9C99102C9FA77F7E0"
    }
  }
}

JSON-RPC

200 OK
{
    "result": {
        "status": "success",
        "tx_blob": "1200002280000000240000016861D4838D7EA4C6800000000000000000000000000055534400000000004B4E9C06F24296074F7BC48F92A97916C6DC5EA9684000000000002710732103AB40A0490F9B7ED8DF29D246BF2D6269820A0EE7742ACDD457BEA7C7D0931EDB7446304402200E5C2DD81FDF0BE9AB2A8D797885ED49E804DBF28E806604D878756410CA98B102203349581946B0DDA06B36B35DBC20EDA27552C1F167BCF5C6ECFF49C6A46F858081144B4E9C06F24296074F7BC48F92A97916C6DC5EA983143E9D4A2B8AA0780F682D136F7A56D6724EF53754",
        "tx_json": {
            "Account": "rf1BiGeXwwQoi8Z2ueFYTEXSwuJYfV2Jpn",
            "Amount": {
                "currency": "USD",
                "issuer": "rf1BiGeXwwQoi8Z2ueFYTEXSwuJYfV2Jpn",
                "value": "1"
            },
            "Destination": "ra5nK24KXen9AHvsdFTKHSANinZseWnPcX",
            "Fee": "10000",
            "Flags": 2147483648,
            "Sequence": 360,
            "SigningPubKey": "03AB40A0490F9B7ED8DF29D246BF2D6269820A0EE7742ACDD457BEA7C7D0931EDB",
            "TransactionType": "Payment",
            "TxnSignature": "304402200E5C2DD81FDF0BE9AB2A8D797885ED49E804DBF28E806604D878756410CA98B102203349581946B0DDA06B36B35DBC20EDA27552C1F167BCF5C6ECFF49C6A46F8580",
            "hash": "4D5D90890F8D49519E4151938601EF3D0B30B16CD6A519D9C99102C9FA77F7E0"
        }
    }
}

Commandline

Loading: "/etc/rippled.cfg"
Connecting to 127.0.0.1:5005
{
   "result" : {
      "status" : "success",
      "tx_blob" : "1200002280000000240000016861D4838D7EA4C6800000000000000000000000000055534400000000004B4E9C06F24296074F7BC48F92A97916C6DC5EA9684000000000002710732103AB40A0490F9B7ED8DF29D246BF2D6269820A0EE7742ACDD457BEA7C7D0931EDB7447304502210094D24C795CFFA8E46FE338AF63421DA5CE5E171ED56F8E4CE70FFABA15D3CFA2022063994C52BF0393C8157EBFFCDE6A7E7EDC7B16A462CA53214F64CC8FCBB5E54A81144B4E9C06F24296074F7BC48F92A97916C6DC5EA983143E9D4A2B8AA0780F682D136F7A56D6724EF53754",
      "tx_json" : {
         "Account" : "rf1BiGeXwwQoi8Z2ueFYTEXSwuJYfV2Jpn",
         "Amount" : {
            "currency" : "USD",
            "issuer" : "rf1BiGeXwwQoi8Z2ueFYTEXSwuJYfV2Jpn",
            "value" : "1"
         },
         "Destination" : "ra5nK24KXen9AHvsdFTKHSANinZseWnPcX",
         "Fee" : "10000",
         "Flags" : 2147483648,
         "Sequence" : 360,
         "SigningPubKey" : "03AB40A0490F9B7ED8DF29D246BF2D6269820A0EE7742ACDD457BEA7C7D0931EDB",
         "TransactionType" : "Payment",
         "TxnSignature" : "304502210094D24C795CFFA8E46FE338AF63421DA5CE5E171ED56F8E4CE70FFABA15D3CFA2022063994C52BF0393C8157EBFFCDE6A7E7EDC7B16A462CA53214F64CC8FCBB5E54A",
         "hash" : "DE80DA6FF9F93FE4CE87C99441F403E0290E35867FF48382204CB89975BF343E"
      }
   }
}

The response follows the standard format, with a successful result containing the following fields:

`Field`	Type	Description
`tx_blob`	String	Binary representation of the fully-qualified, signed transaction, as hex
`tx_json`	Object	JSON specification of the complete transaction as signed, including any fields that were automatically filled in

Caution: If this command results in an error messages, the message can contain the secret key from the request. Make sure that these errors are not visible to others.

Do not write this error to a log file that can be seen by multiple people.
Do not paste this error to a public place for debugging.
Do not display the error message on a website, even by accident.

Possible Errors

Any of the [universal error types][].
invalidParams - One or more fields are specified incorrectly, or one or more required fields are missing.
highFee - The current load-based multiplier to the transaction cost exceeds the limit for an automatically-provided transaction cost. Either specify a higher fee_mult_max (at least 1000) in the request or manually provide a value in the Fee field of the tx_json.
tooBusy - The transaction did not include paths, but the server is too busy to do pathfinding right now. Does not occur if you are connected as an admin.
noPath - The transaction did not include paths, and the server was unable to find a path by which this payment can occur.

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