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authorCory Benfield <lukasaoz@gmail.com>2016-01-22 18:42:13 +0000
committerCory Benfield <lukasaoz@gmail.com>2016-01-22 18:42:28 +0000
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Explain that FILETYPE_ASN1 is DER.
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@@ -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