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authorAlex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>2019-11-10 21:19:44 -0500
committerPaul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com>2019-11-11 10:19:44 +0800
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Fixes #4699 -- document that UnrecognizedExtension can be used in generation (#5057)
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@@ -2460,7 +2460,9 @@ X.509 Extensions
.. versionadded:: 1.2
A generic extension class used to hold the raw value of extensions that
- ``cryptography`` does not know how to parse.
+ ``cryptography`` does not know how to parse. This can also be used when
+ creating new certificates, CRLs, or OCSP requests and responses to encode
+ extensions that ``cryptography`` does not know how to generate.
.. attribute:: oid