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-rw-r--r--docs/hazmat/backends/interfaces.rst5
-rw-r--r--docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/ec.rst7
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/hazmat/backends/interfaces.rst b/docs/hazmat/backends/interfaces.rst
index 942a359c..42e07d39 100644
--- a/docs/hazmat/backends/interfaces.rst
+++ b/docs/hazmat/backends/interfaces.rst
@@ -422,14 +422,15 @@ A specific ``backend`` may provide one or more of these interfaces.
:returns: An instance of
:class:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.ec.EllipticCurvePublicKey`.
- .. method:: derive_elliptic_curve_public_point(private_value, curve)
+ .. method:: derive_elliptic_curve_private_key(private_value, curve)
:param private_value: A secret scalar value.
:param curve: An instance of
:class:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.ec.EllipticCurve`.
- :returns: A tuple (x, y).
+ :returns: An instance of
+ :class:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.ec.EllipticCurvePrivateKey`.
.. class:: PEMSerializationBackend
diff --git a/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/ec.rst b/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/ec.rst
index 33ebee0f..27debfa1 100644
--- a/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/ec.rst
+++ b/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/ec.rst
@@ -20,13 +20,14 @@ Elliptic curve cryptography
:returns: A new instance of :class:`EllipticCurvePrivateKey`.
-.. function:: derive_private_key(secret, curve, backend)
+.. function:: derive_private_key(private_value, curve, backend)
.. versionadded:: 1.6
- Derive a private key from ``secret`` on ``curve`` for use with ``backend``.
+ Derive a private key from ``private_value`` on ``curve`` for use with
+ ``backend``.
- :param int secret: The secret scalar value.
+ :param int private_value: The secret scalar value.
:param curve: An instance of :class:`EllipticCurve`.