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author | Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> | 2015-01-17 13:57:41 -0500 |
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committer | Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> | 2015-01-17 13:57:41 -0500 |
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Merge pull request #1608 from reaperhulk/der-backend-interfaces
add DER backend interfaces
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diff --git a/docs/hazmat/backends/interfaces.rst b/docs/hazmat/backends/interfaces.rst index 052e397f..8efe2ce9 100644 --- a/docs/hazmat/backends/interfaces.rst +++ b/docs/hazmat/backends/interfaces.rst @@ -468,6 +468,30 @@ A specific ``backend`` may provide one or more of these interfaces. serialized data contains. :raises ValueError: If the data could not be deserialized. +.. class:: DERSerializationBackend + + .. versionadded:: 0.8 + + A backend with methods for working with DER encoded keys. + + .. method:: load_der_private_key(data, password) + + :param bytes data: DER data to load. + :param bytes password: The password to use if the data is encrypted. + Should be ``None`` if the data is not encrypted. + :return: A new instance of the appropriate type of private key that the + serialized data contains. + :raises ValueError: If the data could not be deserialized. + :raises cryptography.exceptions.UnsupportedAlgorithm: If the data is + encrypted with an unsupported algorithm. + + .. method:: load_der_public_key(data) + + :param bytes data: DER data to load. + :return: A new instance of the appropriate type of public key + serialized data contains. + :raises ValueError: If the data could not be deserialized. + .. class:: X509Backend .. versionadded:: 0.7 |