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authorJulian Krause <julian.krause@gmail.com>2013-12-25 11:00:49 -0800
committerJulian Krause <julian.krause@gmail.com>2013-12-25 11:00:49 -0800
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Clean up documentation and naming.
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-rw-r--r--docs/exceptions.rst6
-rw-r--r--docs/hazmat/primitives/cryptographic-hashes.rst7
-rw-r--r--docs/hazmat/primitives/hmac.rst7
3 files changed, 14 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/docs/exceptions.rst b/docs/exceptions.rst
index 087066b8..8be2c48c 100644
--- a/docs/exceptions.rst
+++ b/docs/exceptions.rst
@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ Exceptions
This is raised when a context is used after being finalized.
+.. class:: InvalidSignature
+
+ This is raised when the verify function of a hash function does not
+ compare equal.
+
+
.. class:: NotYetFinalized
This is raised when the AEAD tag property is accessed on a context
diff --git a/docs/hazmat/primitives/cryptographic-hashes.rst b/docs/hazmat/primitives/cryptographic-hashes.rst
index 02c7b5e1..f6a3f7a1 100644
--- a/docs/hazmat/primitives/cryptographic-hashes.rst
+++ b/docs/hazmat/primitives/cryptographic-hashes.rst
@@ -67,12 +67,13 @@ Message Digests
:return bytes: The message digest as bytes.
- .. method:: verify(sig)
+ .. method:: verify(digest)
- Finalize the current context and securely compare digest to sig.
+ Finalize the current context and securely compare that digest to ``digest``.
+ :param bytes digest: Received hash digest
:raises cryptography.exceptions.AlreadyFinalized: See :meth:`finalize`
- :raises cryptography.exceptions.InvalidSignature: If sig does not match digest
+ :raises cryptography.exceptions.InvalidSignature: If hash digest does not match digest
.. _cryptographic-hash-algorithms:
diff --git a/docs/hazmat/primitives/hmac.rst b/docs/hazmat/primitives/hmac.rst
index b556bd6a..0c19f20c 100644
--- a/docs/hazmat/primitives/hmac.rst
+++ b/docs/hazmat/primitives/hmac.rst
@@ -70,9 +70,10 @@ message.
:return bytes: The message digest as bytes.
:raises cryptography.exceptions.AlreadyFinalized:
- .. method:: verify(sig)
+ .. method:: verify(signature)
- Finalize the current context and securely compare digest to sig.
+ Finalize the current context and securely compare digest to ``signature``.
+ :param bytes signature: The bytes of the HMAC signature recieved.
:raises cryptography.exceptions.AlreadyFinalized: See :meth:`finalize`
- :raises cryptography.exceptions.InvalidSignature: If sig does not match digest
+ :raises cryptography.exceptions.InvalidSignature: If signature does not match digest