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| author | Paul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com> | 2014-11-24 09:20:38 -1000 |
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| committer | Paul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com> | 2014-11-24 09:20:38 -1000 |
| commit | 6c4302e64c8ee866bfde6cd0acd5a86a9b1834de (patch) | |
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add backend interface for loading x509 certificates
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diff --git a/docs/hazmat/backends/interfaces.rst b/docs/hazmat/backends/interfaces.rst index ce2f0918..47553a9d 100644 --- a/docs/hazmat/backends/interfaces.rst +++ b/docs/hazmat/backends/interfaces.rst @@ -512,3 +512,17 @@ A specific ``backend`` may provide one or more of these interfaces. :raises cryptography.exceptions.UnsupportedAlgorithm: If the data is encrypted with an unsupported algorithm. + +.. class:: X509Backend + + .. versionadded:: 0.7 + + A backend with methods for working with X.509 objects. + + .. method:: load_pem_x509_certificate(data) + + :param bytes data: PEM formatted certificate data. + + :returns: An instance of a + :class:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.interfaces.X509Certificate` + provider. |