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| author | Paul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com> | 2016-11-13 14:30:11 -0800 |
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| committer | Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> | 2016-11-13 17:30:11 -0500 |
| commit | 3a15b03e92c9fdeadff04ddd2ce505028b279b86 (patch) | |
| tree | e314732deed27d3f3f4dba9b4c1f40dcca3e54fa /docs/x509/reference.rst | |
| parent | d862933de5c344fcdf99ab2f43f3bf8da65f3e41 (diff) | |
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Add a bytes method to get the DER ASN.1 encoding of an X509 name. (#3236)
* Add a bytes method to get the DER ASN.1 encoding of an X509 name.
This is useful for creating an OpenSSL style subject_name_hash (#3011)
* add to backend interface and update multibackend
* bytes -> public_bytes
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diff --git a/docs/x509/reference.rst b/docs/x509/reference.rst index bc408ae6..d3e72c0a 100644 --- a/docs/x509/reference.rst +++ b/docs/x509/reference.rst @@ -1142,6 +1142,16 @@ X.509 CSR (Certificate Signing Request) Builder Object >>> cert.subject.get_attributes_for_oid(NameOID.COMMON_NAME) [<NameAttribute(oid=<ObjectIdentifier(oid=2.5.4.3, name=commonName)>, value=u'Good CA')>] + .. method:: public_bytes(backend) + + .. versionadded:: 1.6 + + :param backend: A backend supporting the + :class:`~cryptography.hazmat.backends.interfaces.X509Backend` + interface. + + :return bytes: The DER encoded name. + .. class:: Version .. versionadded:: 0.7 |