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-rw-r--r--docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/dsa.rst8
-rw-r--r--docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/rsa.rst10
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/dsa.rst b/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/dsa.rst
index 4eb17e30..9431ff57 100644
--- a/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/dsa.rst
+++ b/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/dsa.rst
@@ -86,8 +86,12 @@ described in :rfc:`3279`. This can be decoded using
Verification
~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Using a :class:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.dsa.DSAPublicKey`
-provider.
+Verification is performed using a
+:class:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.dsa.DSAPublicKey` provider.
+Public keys are obtained by using
+:func:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.serialization.load_pem_public_key`,
+:func:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.serialization.load_der_public_key`, or
+:meth:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.dsa.DSAPrivateKey.public_key`.
.. doctest::
diff --git a/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/rsa.rst b/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/rsa.rst
index f88750cf..de8b2fd0 100644
--- a/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/rsa.rst
+++ b/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/rsa.rst
@@ -163,9 +163,13 @@ Verification
~~~~~~~~~~~~
The previous section describes what to do if you have a private key and want to
-sign something. If you have a public key, a message, and a signature, you can
-check that the public key genuinely was used to sign that specific message. You
-also need to know which signing algorithm was used:
+sign something. If you have a public key, a message, a signature, and the
+signing algorithm that was used you can check that the private key associated
+with a given public key was used to sign that specific message. You can obtain
+a public key to use in verification using
+:func:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.serialization.load_pem_public_key`,
+:func:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.serialization.load_der_public_key`, or
+:meth:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.rsa.RSAPrivateKey.public_key`.
.. doctest::