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authorPaul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com>2014-11-24 17:13:59 -1000
committerPaul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com>2014-11-24 17:13:59 -1000
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add load_der_x509_certificate X509Backend method
-rw-r--r--docs/hazmat/backends/interfaces.rst7
-rw-r--r--src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/interfaces.py6
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diff --git a/docs/hazmat/backends/interfaces.rst b/docs/hazmat/backends/interfaces.rst
index 3cce1576..e4c43d9e 100644
--- a/docs/hazmat/backends/interfaces.rst
+++ b/docs/hazmat/backends/interfaces.rst
@@ -525,3 +525,10 @@ A specific ``backend`` may provide one or more of these interfaces.
:returns: An instance of
:class:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.interfaces.X509Certificate`.
+
+ .. method:: load_der_x509_certificate(data)
+
+ :param bytes data: DER formatted certificate data.
+
+ :returns: An instance of
+ :class:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.interfaces.X509Certificate`.
diff --git a/src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/interfaces.py b/src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/interfaces.py
index dcdd1c39..8fc78309 100644
--- a/src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/interfaces.py
+++ b/src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/interfaces.py
@@ -259,3 +259,9 @@ class X509Backend(object):
"""
Load an X.509 certificate from PEM encoded data.
"""
+
+ @abc.abstractmethod
+ def load_der_x509_certificate(self, data):
+ """
+ Load an X.509 certificate from DER encoded data.
+ """