From d5d085e056936ffec5461f313edda195690cd636 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Reid <dreid@dreid.org>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 09:45:52 -0800
Subject: Put some docs for default_backend in a place.

---
 docs/hazmat/bindings/index.rst | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)

(limited to 'docs/hazmat/bindings')

diff --git a/docs/hazmat/bindings/index.rst b/docs/hazmat/bindings/index.rst
index 11355bfa..746f4596 100644
--- a/docs/hazmat/bindings/index.rst
+++ b/docs/hazmat/bindings/index.rst
@@ -8,3 +8,27 @@ Bindings
 
     openssl
     interfaces
+
+
+Getting a Backend Provider
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. currentmodule:: cryptography.hazmat.bindings
+
+``cryptography`` aims to support multiple backends to ensure it can provide
+the widest number of supported cryptographic algorithms as well as supporting
+platform specific implementations.
+
+You can get the default backend by calling
+:func:`~default_backend`.
+
+The default backend will change over time as we implement new backends and
+the libraries we use in those backends changes.
+
+
+.. function:: default_backend()
+
+    :returns: An object that provides at least
+        :class:`~interfaces.CipherBackend`, :class:`~interfaces.HashBackend`, and
+        :class:`~interfaces.HMACBackend`.
+
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