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diff --git a/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/rsa.rst b/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/rsa.rst index f88750cf..bc2402de 100644 --- a/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/rsa.rst +++ b/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/rsa.rst @@ -163,9 +163,15 @@ Verification ~~~~~~~~~~~~ The previous section describes what to do if you have a private key and want to -sign something. If you have a public key, a message, and a signature, you can -check that the public key genuinely was used to sign that specific message. You -also need to know which signing algorithm was used: +sign something. If you have a public key, a message, a signature, and the +signing algorithm that was used you can check that the private key associated +with a given public key was used to sign that specific message. You can obtain +a public key to use in verification using +:func:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.serialization.load_pem_public_key`, +:func:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.serialization.load_der_public_key`, +:meth:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.rsa.RSAPublicNumbers.public_key` +, or +:meth:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.rsa.RSAPrivateKey.public_key`. .. doctest:: |