From 06f360feedb740aa0b4db7683d02accd14bc1732 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Kehrer Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 11:00:30 -0500 Subject: add some links to public key loading in the RSA/DSA verification sections --- docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/rsa.rst | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/rsa.rst') 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:: -- cgit v1.2.3