Merge pull request #2565 from reaperhulk/crl-interface

add create_x509_crl interface

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/hazmat/backends/interfaces.rst b/docs/hazmat/backends/interfaces.rst
index ef7ba6ae..3a7224fa 100644
--- a/docs/hazmat/backends/interfaces.rst
+++ b/docs/hazmat/backends/interfaces.rst
@@ -569,6 +569,26 @@ A specific ``backend`` may provide one or more of these interfaces.
 
         :returns: A new instance of :class:`~cryptography.x509.Certificate`.
 
+    .. method:: create_x509_crl(builder, private_key, algorithm)
+
+        .. versionadded:: 1.2
+
+        :param builder: An instance of
+            CertificateRevocationListBuilder.
+
+        :param private_key: The
+            :class:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.rsa.RSAPrivateKey`,
+            :class:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.dsa.DSAPrivateKey` or
+            :class:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.ec.EllipticCurvePrivateKey`
+            that will be used to sign the CRL.
+
+        :param algorithm: The
+            :class:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.hashes.HashAlgorithm`
+            that will be used to generate the CRL signature.
+
+        :returns: A new instance of
+            :class:`~cryptography.x509.CertificateRevocationList`.
+
 
 .. class:: DHBackend