PrivateKey

Represents a private key.

Attributes

Attribute	Type	Description
_key	rsa.RSAPrivateKey	The internal RSA private key object used for signing data and cryptographic operations.

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Constructor

Signature

def PrivateKey(
    key: string|bytes,
    password: string|bytes = None
) - > null

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
key	`string	bytes`
password	`string	bytes` = None

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Signature

def PrivateKey(
    key: string|bytes,
    password: string|bytes = null
) - > null

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
key	`string	bytes`
password	`string	bytes` = null

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Methods

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sign()

@classmethod
def sign(
    data: string|bytes,
    digest: hashes.HashAlgorithm
) - > bytes

Sign string containing data.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
data	`string	bytes`
digest	hashes.HashAlgorithm	The cryptographic hash algorithm instance used to compute the message digest and configure the MGF1 mask generation function.

Returns

Type	Description
bytes	The digital signature generated from the input data using RSA-PSS padding.

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