From: Katie Hockman <katie@golang.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 16:21:24 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: crypto/x509: clarify MarshalPKIXPublicKey and ParsePKIXPublicKey docs
X-Git-Tag: go1.15beta1~520
X-Git-Url: http://www.git.cypherpunks.su/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ef5c59d47b7f4376ea8ff54fb0a882528c0f5588;p=gostls13.git

crypto/x509: clarify MarshalPKIXPublicKey and ParsePKIXPublicKey docs

Fixes #35313

Change-Id: I7be3c40f338de6b1808358ea01e729db8b533ce5
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/228778
Run-TryBot: Katie Hockman <katie@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Filippo Valsorda <filippo@golang.org>
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diff --git a/src/crypto/x509/x509.go b/src/crypto/x509/x509.go
index 6776608d75..6d03a129f8 100644
--- a/src/crypto/x509/x509.go
+++ b/src/crypto/x509/x509.go
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ type pkixPublicKey struct {
 }
 
 // ParsePKIXPublicKey parses a public key in PKIX, ASN.1 DER form.
+// The encoded public key is a SubjectPublicKeyInfo structure
+// (see RFC 5280, Section 4.1).
 //
 // It returns a *rsa.PublicKey, *dsa.PublicKey, *ecdsa.PublicKey, or
 // ed25519.PublicKey. More types might be supported in the future.
@@ -107,6 +109,8 @@ func marshalPublicKey(pub interface{}) (publicKeyBytes []byte, publicKeyAlgorith
 }
 
 // MarshalPKIXPublicKey converts a public key to PKIX, ASN.1 DER form.
+// The encoded public key is a SubjectPublicKeyInfo structure
+// (see RFC 5280, Section 4.1).
 //
 // The following key types are currently supported: *rsa.PublicKey, *ecdsa.PublicKey
 // and ed25519.PublicKey. Unsupported key types result in an error.