test: check that `verifymessage` RPC fails for non-P2PKH addresses

test/functional/rpc_signmessagewithprivkey.py

@@ -4,27 +4,44 @@
 # file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
 """Test RPC commands for signing messages with private key."""
 
+from test_framework.descriptors import (
+    descsum_create,
+)
 from test_framework.test_framework import BitcoinTestFramework
 from test_framework.util import (
     assert_equal,
     assert_raises_rpc_error,
 )
 
+
 class SignMessagesWithPrivTest(BitcoinTestFramework):
     def set_test_params(self):
         self.setup_clean_chain = True
         self.num_nodes = 1
 
+    def addresses_from_privkey(self, priv_key):
+        '''Return addresses for a given WIF private key in legacy (P2PKH),
+           nested segwit (P2SH-P2WPKH) and native segwit (P2WPKH) formats.'''
+        descriptors = f'pkh({priv_key})', f'sh(wpkh({priv_key}))', f'wpkh({priv_key})'
+        return [self.nodes[0].deriveaddresses(descsum_create(desc))[0] for desc in descriptors]
+
     def run_test(self):
         message = 'This is just a test message'
 
         self.log.info('test signing with priv_key')
         priv_key = 'cUeKHd5orzT3mz8P9pxyREHfsWtVfgsfDjiZZBcjUBAaGk1BTj7N'
-        address = 'mpLQjfK79b7CCV4VMJWEWAj5Mpx8Up5zxB'
         expected_signature = 'INbVnW4e6PeRmsv2Qgu8NuopvrVjkcxob+sX8OcZG0SALhWybUjzMLPdAsXI46YZGb0KQTRii+wWIQzRpG/U+S0='
         signature = self.nodes[0].signmessagewithprivkey(priv_key, message)
         assert_equal(expected_signature, signature)
-        assert self.nodes[0].verifymessage(address, signature, message)
+
+        self.log.info('test that verifying with P2PKH address succeeds')
+        addresses = self.addresses_from_privkey(priv_key)
+        assert_equal(addresses[0], 'mpLQjfK79b7CCV4VMJWEWAj5Mpx8Up5zxB')
+        assert self.nodes[0].verifymessage(addresses[0], signature, message)
+
+        self.log.info('test that verifying with non-P2PKH addresses throws error')
+        for non_p2pkh_address in addresses[1:]:
+            assert_raises_rpc_error(-3, "Address does not refer to key", self.nodes[0].verifymessage, non_p2pkh_address, signature, message)
 
         self.log.info('test parameter validity and error codes')
         # signmessagewithprivkey has two required parameters
@@ -41,5 +58,6 @@ class SignMessagesWithPrivTest(BitcoinTestFramework):
         # malformed signature provided
         assert_raises_rpc_error(-3, "Malformed base64 encoding", self.nodes[0].verifymessage, 'mpLQjfK79b7CCV4VMJWEWAj5Mpx8Up5zxB', "invalid_sig", message)
 
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     SignMessagesWithPrivTest().main()