From 3a15b03e92c9fdeadff04ddd2ce505028b279b86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Kehrer Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 14:30:11 -0800 Subject: Add a bytes method to get the DER ASN.1 encoding of an X509 name. (#3236) * Add a bytes method to get the DER ASN.1 encoding of an X509 name. This is useful for creating an OpenSSL style subject_name_hash (#3011) * add to backend interface and update multibackend * bytes -> public_bytes --- docs/hazmat/backends/interfaces.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs/hazmat/backends/interfaces.rst') diff --git a/docs/hazmat/backends/interfaces.rst b/docs/hazmat/backends/interfaces.rst index 0a0d1456..942a359c 100644 --- a/docs/hazmat/backends/interfaces.rst +++ b/docs/hazmat/backends/interfaces.rst @@ -585,6 +585,14 @@ A specific ``backend`` may provide one or more of these interfaces. :returns: A new instance of :class:`~cryptography.x509.RevokedCertificate`. + .. method:: x509_name_bytes(name) + + .. versionadded:: 1.6 + + :param name: An instance of :class:`~cryptography.x509.Name`. + + :return bytes: The DER encoded bytes. + .. class:: DHBackend .. versionadded:: 0.9 -- cgit v1.2.3