# Help with "signature verification failed"

**URL:** <https://forum.cosmos.network/t/help-with-signature-verification-failed/528>\
**Category:** Cosmos-SDK\
**Created:** [July 18, 2018, 8:40am UTC](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/help-with-signature-verification-failed/528 "2018-07-18T08:40:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![ping](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.cosmos.network/ping/32/108_2.png) [@ping](https://forum.cosmos.network/u/ping)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 8:40am UTC](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/help-with-signature-verification-failed/528/1 "2018-07-18T08:40:53Z")

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Hi, Can anyone help me?

I have a very strange error: signature verification failed

I am pretty sure that my passphrase is correct.

> gaiacli send --amount=1steak --chain-id=7001 --from liangping --to cosmosaccaddr1rxxcpkmsngd0azkh3n2467m66ls4rwq52yuv27

> Defaulting to account number: 29  
> Defaulting to next sequence number: 0  
> Password to sign with ‘liangping’:  
> ERROR: checkTx failed: (65540) === ABCI Log ===  
> Codespace: 1  
> Code: 4  
> ABCICode: 65540  
> Error: --= Error =–  
> Data: common.FmtError{format:“signature verification failed”, args:interface {}(nil)}  
> Msg Traces:  
> –= /Error =–  
> === /ABCI Log ===

when i execute other commands like edit-validator , i get the same error.

then I try gaiacli account xxxxx.

> {  
> “type”: “auth/Account”,  
> “value”: {  
> “address”: “cosmosaccaddr1rxxcpkmsngd0azkh3n2467m66ls4rwq52yuv27”,  
> “coins”: [  
> {  
> “denom”: “liangpingToken”,  
> “amount”: “1000”  
> },  
> {  
> “denom”: “steak”,  
> “amount”: “50”  
> }  
> ],  
> “public\_key”: null,  
> “account\_number”: “29”,  
> “sequence”: “0”  
> }  
> }

“public\_key”: null, why here is null ?

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**Author:** ![jack](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.cosmos.network/jack/32/98_2.png) [@jack](https://forum.cosmos.network/u/jack)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 3:59pm UTC](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/help-with-signature-verification-failed/528/2 "2018-07-18T15:59:21Z")

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That is the expected behavior when the passphrase is wrong. Can you double check that and try again? Or if you have forgotten the password try creating a new key and trying the whole flow again?

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**Author:** ![ping](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.cosmos.network/ping/32/108_2.png) [@ping](https://forum.cosmos.network/u/ping)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 1:15am UTC](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/help-with-signature-verification-failed/528/3 "2018-07-19T01:15:08Z")

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thanks, I finally find out what’s going on.

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**Author:** ![kwunyeung](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.cosmos.network/kwunyeung/32/68_2.png) [@kwunyeung](https://forum.cosmos.network/u/kwunyeung)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 4:49am UTC](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/help-with-signature-verification-failed/528/4 "2018-07-19T04:49:29Z")

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What’s your problem eventually?

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**Author:** ![ping](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.cosmos.network/ping/32/108_2.png) [@ping](https://forum.cosmos.network/u/ping)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 5:21am UTC](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/help-with-signature-verification-failed/528/5 "2018-07-19T05:21:06Z")

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A stupid mistake!,  
i used a wrong chain-id: 7001.