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| author | Paul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com> | 2016-11-21 07:55:18 +0800 |
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| committer | Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> | 2016-11-20 18:55:18 -0500 |
| commit | ec7fc461510ce6fa7fe0846dd51907ae5c611a2f (patch) | |
| tree | caee4f3f678fb718f88fcc2edf9cc8fd7b4ff825 /docs | |
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update docs and changelog for prehashed support (#3268)
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diff --git a/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/utils.rst b/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/utils.rst index ab49e551..f46acb2e 100644 --- a/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/utils.rst +++ b/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/utils.rst @@ -33,11 +33,23 @@ Asymmetric Utilities .. versionadded:: 1.6 - ``Prehashed`` can be passed as the ``algorithm`` in + ``Prehashed`` can be passed as the ``algorithm`` in the RSA :meth:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.rsa.RSAPrivateKey.sign` - or + and :meth:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.rsa.RSAPublicKey.verify` - if the data to be signed or verified has been hashed beforehand. + as well as DSA + :meth:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.dsa.DSAPrivateKey.sign` + and + :meth:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.dsa.DSAPublicKey.verify` + methods. + + For elliptic curves it can be passed as the ``algorithm`` in + :class:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.ec.ECDSA` and then used + with + :meth:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.ec.EllipticCurvePrivateKey.sign` + and + :meth:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.ec.EllipticCurvePublicKey.verify` + . :param algorithm: An instance of :class:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.hashes.HashAlgorithm`. |