Determined that we're also failing to verify signatures in the test f…

…ile - I may have to check in to that and see if there is a better crypt module.

blockchain_message/src/blockchain.py

@@ -57,9 +57,6 @@ def retrieve(self, user: Contact, last_message: int, contact_list: List[Contact]
 
         result = contract.functions.retrieve(int(user.address), last_message).call()
 
-        result = bytes(result, 'utf8')
-        result = result.decode('utf8')
-
         messages = list()
 
         res_list = result.split('♠')

blockchain_message/src/crypt.py

@@ -73,7 +73,6 @@ def verify(message: str, signature: str, sender: Contact):
         :param signature: The signature to verify.
         :param sender: The contact who the message claims to be sent by.
         """
-        signature.replace("\\\\", "\\")
         m = bytes(bytes(message, 'latin-1').decode('latin-1'), 'latin-1')
         s = bytes(signature, 'latin-1')
         rsa.verify(m, s, rsa.PublicKey.load_pkcs1(sender.key))

test/test_crypt.py

@@ -23,5 +23,5 @@ def test_verify(self):
         c = Crypt("other")
         con = Contact("00001", "other", "[email protected]")
         message = "This is a test."
-        signature = c.sign(message)
+        signature = str(c.sign(message))
         c.verify(message, signature, con)