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-rw-r--r--CHANGELOG.rst2
-rw-r--r--docs/x509.rst8
-rw-r--r--src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/multibackend.py4
3 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 9d68d139..448f7f0c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Changelog
:class:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.dsa.DSAPrivateKeyWithSerialization`,
and
:class:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.ec.EllipticCurvePrivateKeyWithSerialization`.
-* Add support for parsing X.509 requests with
+* Add support for parsing X.509 CSRs (certificate signing requests) with
:func:`~cryptography.x509.load_pem_x509_csr`.
0.8.1 - 2015-03-20
diff --git a/docs/x509.rst b/docs/x509.rst
index 7f681ead..03301c22 100644
--- a/docs/x509.rst
+++ b/docs/x509.rst
@@ -84,8 +84,8 @@ Loading CSRs
.. versionadded:: 0.9
- Deserialize a certificate request from PEM encoded data. PEM requests are
- base64 decoded and have delimiters that look like
+ Deserialize a certificate signing request from PEM encoded data. PEM
+ requests are base64 decoded and have delimiters that look like
``-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----``. This is also known as PKCS#10
format.
@@ -263,8 +263,8 @@ X.509 Certificate Object
... print(ext)
<Extension(oid=<ObjectIdentifier(oid=2.5.29.19, name=basicConstraints)>, critical=True, value=<BasicConstraints(ca=True, path_length=None)>)>
-X.509 CSR Object
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+X.509 CSR (Certificate Signing Request) Object
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.. class:: CSR
diff --git a/src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/multibackend.py b/src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/multibackend.py
index 86ddc3b1..54b044f0 100644
--- a/src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/multibackend.py
+++ b/src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/multibackend.py
@@ -326,9 +326,7 @@ class MultiBackend(object):
)
def load_pem_x509_csr(self, data):
- for b in self._filtered_backends(
- X509Backend
- ):
+ for b in self._filtered_backends(X509Backend):
return b.load_pem_x509_csr(data)
raise UnsupportedAlgorithm(