How do you verify an RSA SHA1 signature in Python?

Question

I\'ve got a string, a signature, and a public key, and I want to verify the signature on the string. The key looks like this:

-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----
MIGf         


        

Answer 1

Maybe this isn't the answer you're looking for, but if all you need is to turn the key into bits, it looks like it's Base64 encoded. Look at the codecs module (I think) in the standard Python library.