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authorJared Hance <jhance@users.noreply.github.com>2015-07-05 10:18:34 -0700
committerJeff Forcier <jeff@bitprophet.org>2015-10-02 15:22:01 -0700
commit150960800dd5cf260a9932df53847d2d029c3656 (patch)
treebbf8bd1f2c2518159eb6237cbfa1ef5e993999bf
parentb67ee80ba6cbb985a537123a0ae099b81ddfc999 (diff)
Fix ECDSA generate documentation.
Was a blatant copy of a comment from RSAKey.
-rw-r--r--paramiko/ecdsakey.py8
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/paramiko/ecdsakey.py b/paramiko/ecdsakey.py
index 6b047959..8827a1db 100644
--- a/paramiko/ecdsakey.py
+++ b/paramiko/ecdsakey.py
@@ -129,13 +129,11 @@ class ECDSAKey (PKey):
@staticmethod
def generate(curve=curves.NIST256p, progress_func=None):
"""
- Generate a new private RSA key. This factory function can be used to
+ Generate a new private ECDSA key. This factory function can be used to
generate a new host key or authentication key.
- :param function progress_func:
- an optional function to call at key points in key generation (used
- by ``pyCrypto.PublicKey``).
- :returns: A new private key (`.RSAKey`) object
+ :param function progress_func: Not used for this type of key.
+ :returns: A new private key (`.ECDSAKey`) object
"""
signing_key = SigningKey.generate(curve)
key = ECDSAKey(vals=(signing_key, signing_key.get_verifying_key()))