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@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ Backend interfaces
.. currentmodule:: cryptography.hazmat.backends.interfaces
-Backend implementations may provide a number of interfaces to support operations
-such as :doc:`/hazmat/primitives/symmetric-encryption`,
+Backend implementations may provide a number of interfaces to support
+operations such as :doc:`/hazmat/primitives/symmetric-encryption`,
:doc:`/hazmat/primitives/cryptographic-hashes`, and
:doc:`/hazmat/primitives/mac/hmac`.
@@ -275,6 +275,14 @@ A specific ``backend`` may provide one or more of these interfaces.
:class:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.interfaces.AsymmetricPadding`
provider.
+ :return bytes: The decrypted data.
+
+ :raises cryptography.exceptions.UnsupportedAlgorithm: If an unsupported
+ MGF, hash function, or padding is chosen.
+
+ :raises ValueError: When decryption fails or key size does not match
+ ciphertext length.
+
.. method:: encrypt_rsa(public_key, plaintext, padding)
:param public_key: An instance of an
@@ -287,6 +295,12 @@ A specific ``backend`` may provide one or more of these interfaces.
:class:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.interfaces.AsymmetricPadding`
provider.
+ :return bytes: The encrypted data.
+
+ :raises cryptography.exceptions.UnsupportedAlgorithm: If an unsupported
+ MGF, hash function, or padding is chosen.
+
+ :raises ValueError: When plaintext is too long for the key size.
.. class:: TraditionalOpenSSLSerializationBackend