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| author | Paul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com> | 2018-12-10 12:13:31 +0800 |
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| committer | Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> | 2018-12-09 23:13:31 -0500 |
| commit | 3c68250ad9bfb275c760fcce4c72c78c99b57c34 (patch) | |
| tree | 06c6f5b1e513d9d16ec25ab25ae927b47172a7ca /docs/glossary.rst | |
| parent | c2d16370f00e42fae13e492c0b1c7b3a83a5e495 (diff) | |
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allow bytes-like for key/iv/data for symmetric encryption (#4621)
* allow bytearrays for key/iv for symmetric encryption
* bump pypy/cffi requirements
* update docs, fix some tests
* old openssl is naught but pain
* revert a typo
* use trusty for old pypy
* better error msg again
* restore match
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diff --git a/docs/glossary.rst b/docs/glossary.rst index ce08dbaa..95b893c8 100644 --- a/docs/glossary.rst +++ b/docs/glossary.rst @@ -94,6 +94,11 @@ Glossary bit key, you can calculate the number of bytes by dividing by 8. 128 divided by 8 is 16, so a 128 bit key is a 16 byte key. + bytes-like + A bytes-like object contains binary data and supports the + `buffer protocol`_. This includes ``bytes``, ``bytearray``, and + ``memoryview`` objects. + U-label The presentational unicode form of an internationalized domain name. U-labels use unicode characters outside the ASCII range and @@ -101,3 +106,4 @@ Glossary .. _`hardware security module`: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_security_module .. _`idna`: https://pypi.org/project/idna/ +.. _`buffer protocol`: https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/buffer.html |