signmessage and verifymessage CLI commands not accepting Address from getnewaddress?

Question

I am trying the following commands on my v0.19.0.1 Core implementation:
CLI signmessage $(CLI getnewaddress) <message>
and the identical
CLI signmessagewithprivkey $(bitcoin-cli dumpprivkey $(CLI getnewaddress)) <message>

Both times I get Error code: -3 "Address does not refer to key"
All my addresses are wrapped-Segwit (3…). Does this mean since its P2SH there is no way to find the privkey from the address?

Thank you

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Andrew Chow · Accepted Answer

signmessage and verifymessage only work with legacy type addresses. They do not work with segwit addresses. There is ongoing work to introduce a new message signing standard that will work regardless of address type.
Some discussion about why they only work on legacy addresses can be found in this issue: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/10542

signmessage and verifymessage CLI commands not accepting Address from getnewaddress?

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