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| author | Cory Benfield <lukasaoz@gmail.com> | 2016-01-22 18:42:13 +0000 |
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| committer | Cory Benfield <lukasaoz@gmail.com> | 2016-01-22 18:42:28 +0000 |
| commit | 4d67d04bfc4c1e7706ef4c8962f05eb73cb430a1 (patch) | |
| tree | 83d9391267637f15ef46935e51559d73d7042f44 /doc/api | |
| parent | a14f5eac223b04e92df706148f7d3c2a085a8550 (diff) | |
| download | pyopenssl-git-4d67d04bfc4c1e7706ef4c8962f05eb73cb430a1.tar.gz | |
Explain that FILETYPE_ASN1 is DER.
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/api/crypto.rst b/doc/api/crypto.rst index 41b659b..0568ad7 100644 --- a/doc/api/crypto.rst +++ b/doc/api/crypto.rst @@ -35,7 +35,12 @@ Serialization and deserialization --------------------------------- The following serialization functions take one of these constants to -determine the format: +determine the format. + +:data:`FILETYPE_PEM` serializes data to a Base64-encoded encoded representation +of the underlying ASN.1 data structure. :data:`FILETYPE_ASN1` serializes data +to the underlying ASN.1 data structure. The format used by +:data:`FILETYPE_ASN1` is also sometimes referred to as DER. .. py:data:: FILETYPE_PEM FILETYPE_ASN1 |