def sign(self, private_keys):
        """Fulfills a previous Transaction's Output by signing Inputs.

            Note:
                This method works only for the following Cryptoconditions
                currently:
                    - Ed25519Fulfillment
                    - ThresholdSha256
                Furthermore, note that all keys required to fully sign the
                Transaction have to be passed to this method. A subset of all
                will cause this method to fail.

            Args:
                private_keys (:obj:`list` of :obj:`str`): A complete list of
                    all private keys needed to sign all Fulfillments of this
                    Transaction.

            Returns:
                :class:`~bigchaindb.common.transaction.Transaction`
        """
        # TODO: Singing should be possible with at least one of all private
        #       keys supplied to this method.
        if private_keys is None or not isinstance(private_keys, list):
            raise TypeError('`private_keys` must be a list instance')

        # NOTE: Generate public keys from private keys and match them in a
        #       dictionary:
        #                   key:     public_key
        #                   value:   private_key
        def gen_public_key(private_key):
            # TODO FOR CC: Adjust interface so that this function becomes
            #              unnecessary

            # cc now provides a single method `encode` to return the key
            # in several different encodings.
            public_key = private_key.get_verifying_key().encode()
            # Returned values from cc are always bytestrings so here we need
            # to decode to convert the bytestring into a python str
            return public_key.decode()

        key_pairs = {gen_public_key(PrivateKey(private_key)):
                     PrivateKey(private_key) for private_key in private_keys}

        tx_dict = self.to_dict()
        tx_dict = Transaction._remove_signatures(tx_dict)
        tx_serialized = Transaction._to_str(tx_dict)
        for i, input_ in enumerate(self.inputs):
            self.inputs[i] = self._sign_input(input_, tx_serialized, key_pairs)

        self._hash()

        return self
Fulfills a previous Transaction's Output by signing Inputs.

            Note:
                This method works only for the following Cryptoconditions
                currently:
                    - Ed25519Fulfillment
                    - ThresholdSha256
                Furthermore, note that all keys required to fully sign the
                Transaction have to be passed to this method. A subset of all
                will cause this method to fail.

            Args:
                private_keys (:obj:`list` of :obj:`str`): A complete list of
                    all private keys needed to sign all Fulfillments of this
                    Transaction.

            Returns:
                :class:`~bigchaindb.common.transaction.Transaction`