On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 12:42:45PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > Another essential ingredient is that the input must be available all at > > once (not streamed in chunks), and therefore the input data must be in > > a file, not read from stdin. > > What about from a python variable variable? I would assume type binary? The signature is over binary data, not text, so surely binary, but now you're asking about a hypothetical Python API (or at least one not explicitly mentioned in this thread), and so it is difficult to give anything other than a hypothetical answer. -- Viktor.