openzeppelin-contracts/contracts/ECRecovery.sol

pragma solidity ^0.4.11;


/**
 * @title Eliptic curve signature operations
 *
 * @dev Based on https://gist.github.com/axic/5b33912c6f61ae6fd96d6c4a47afde6d
 */

library ECRecovery {

  /**
   * @dev Recover signer address from a message by using his signature
   * @param hash bytes32 message, the hash is the signed message. What is recovered is the signer address.
   * @param sig bytes signature, the signature is generated using web3.eth.sign()
   */
  function recover(bytes32 hash, bytes sig) constant returns (address) {
    bytes32 r;
    bytes32 s;
    uint8 v;

    //Check the signature length
    if (sig.length != 65) {
      return (address(0));
    }

    // Divide the signature in r, s and v variables
    assembly {
      r := mload(add(sig, 32))
      s := mload(add(sig, 64))
      v := byte(0, mload(add(sig, 96)))
    }

    // Version of signature should be 27 or 28, but 0 and 1 are also possible versions
    if (v < 27) {
      v += 27;
    }

    // If the version is correct return the signer address
    if (v != 27 && v != 28) {
      return (address(0));
    } else {
      return ecrecover(hash, v, r, s);
    }
  }

}