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authorAlex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>2014-11-17 10:23:12 -0800
committerAlex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>2014-11-17 10:23:12 -0800
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Describe teh format of the result of signer.finalize(). Fixes #1479
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@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ Elliptic Curve Signature Algorithms
>>> signer.update(b" to sign")
>>> signature = signer.finalize()
+ The ``signature`` is a ``bytes`` object, whose contents is DER encoded as
+ described in :rfc:`6979`.
+
.. class:: EllipticCurvePrivateNumbers(private_value, public_numbers)