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authorAlex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>2014-12-08 11:01:00 -0800
committerAlex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>2014-12-08 11:01:00 -0800
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Merge pull request #1502 from reaperhulk/fix-1285
Support decoding RFC 6979 signatures to (r, s)
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@@ -53,7 +53,9 @@ Elliptic Curve Signature Algorithms
>>> signature = signer.finalize()
The ``signature`` is a ``bytes`` object, whose contents is DER encoded as
- described in :rfc:`6979`.
+ described in :rfc:`6979`. This can be decoded using
+ :func:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.utils.decode_rfc6979_signature`.
+
.. class:: EllipticCurvePrivateNumbers(private_value, public_numbers)