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diff --git a/docs/hazmat/primitives/cryptographic-hashes.rst b/docs/hazmat/primitives/cryptographic-hashes.rst index e7b4f2d6..525fd889 100644 --- a/docs/hazmat/primitives/cryptographic-hashes.rst +++ b/docs/hazmat/primitives/cryptographic-hashes.rst @@ -36,16 +36,25 @@ Message Digests .. method:: update(data) :param bytes data: The bytes you wish to hash. + :raises cryptography.exceptions.AlreadyFinalized: See :meth:`finalize` .. method:: copy() - :return: a new instance of this object with a copied internal state. + Copy this :class:`Hash` instance, usually so that we may call + :meth:`finalize` and get an intermediate digest value while we continue + to call :meth:`update` on the original. + + :return: A new instance of :class:`Hash` which can be updated + and finalized independently of the original instance. + :raises cryptography.exceptions.AlreadyFinalized: See :meth:`finalize` .. method:: finalize() Finalize the current context and return the message digest as bytes. - Once ``finalize`` is called this object can no longer be used. + Once ``finalize`` is called this object can no longer be used and + :meth:`update` and :meth:`copy` will raise + :class:`~cryptography.exceptions.AlreadyFinalized`. :return bytes: The message digest as bytes. |