support bytes-like consistently across our asym sign/verify APIs (#10260)

and update our docs to show it as well

4 files changed, 24 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/dsa.rst b/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/dsa.rst
index bcd4c99..b159a09 100644
--- a/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/dsa.rst
+++ b/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/dsa.rst
@@ -289,7 +289,8 @@ Key interfaces
         Sign one block of data which can be verified later by others using the
         public key.
 
-        :param bytes data: The message string to sign.
+        :param data: The message string to sign.
+        :type data: :term:`bytes-like`
 
         :param algorithm: An instance of
             :class:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.hashes.HashAlgorithm` or
@@ -391,9 +392,11 @@ Key interfaces
         Verify one block of data was signed by the private key
         associated with this public key.
 
-        :param bytes signature: The signature to verify.
+        :param signature: The signature to verify.
+        :type signature: :term:`bytes-like`
 
-        :param bytes data: The message string that was signed.
+        :param data: The message string that was signed.
+        :type data: :term:`bytes-like`
 
         :param algorithm: An instance of
             :class:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.hashes.HashAlgorithm` or
diff --git a/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/ec.rst b/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/ec.rst
index 561218c..75165b6 100644
--- a/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/ec.rst
+++ b/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/ec.rst
@@ -569,7 +569,8 @@ Key Interfaces
         Sign one block of data which can be verified later by others using the
         public key.
 
-        :param bytes data: The message string to sign.
+        :param data: The message string to sign.
+        :type data: :term:`bytes-like`
 
         :param signature_algorithm: An instance of
             :class:`EllipticCurveSignatureAlgorithm`, such as :class:`ECDSA`.
@@ -678,12 +679,14 @@ Key Interfaces
         Verify one block of data was signed by the private key associated
         with this public key.
 
-        :param bytes signature: The DER-encoded signature to verify.
+        :param signature: The DER-encoded signature to verify.
             A raw signature may be DER-encoded by splitting it into the ``r``
             and ``s`` components and passing them into
             :func:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.utils.encode_dss_signature`.
+        :type signature: :term:`bytes-like`
 
-        :param bytes data: The message string that was signed.
+        :param data: The message string that was signed.
+        :type data: :term:`bytes-like`
 
         :param signature_algorithm: An instance of
             :class:`EllipticCurveSignatureAlgorithm`.
diff --git a/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/ed25519.rst b/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/ed25519.rst
index 1ca06fc..8d4b910 100644
--- a/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/ed25519.rst
+++ b/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/ed25519.rst
@@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ Key interfaces
 
     .. method:: sign(data)
 
-        :param bytes data: The data to sign.
+        :param data: The data to sign.
+        :type data: :term:`bytes-like`
 
         :returns bytes: The 64 byte signature.
 
@@ -192,9 +193,11 @@ Key interfaces
 
     .. method:: verify(signature, data)
 
-        :param bytes signature: The signature to verify.
+        :param signature: The signature to verify.
+        :type signature: :term:`bytes-like`
 
-        :param bytes data: The data to verify.
+        :param data: The data to verify.
+        :type data: :term:`bytes-like`
 
         :returns: None
         :raises cryptography.exceptions.InvalidSignature: Raised when the
diff --git a/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/ed448.rst b/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/ed448.rst
index efe245d..27a8092 100644
--- a/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/ed448.rst
+++ b/docs/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/ed448.rst
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ Key interfaces
 
     .. method:: sign(data)
 
-        :param bytes data: The data to sign.
+        :param data: The data to sign.
+        :type data: :term:`bytes-like`
 
         :returns bytes: The 114 byte signature.
 
@@ -146,9 +147,11 @@ Key interfaces
 
     .. method:: verify(signature, data)
 
-        :param bytes signature: The signature to verify.
+        :param signature: The signature to verify.
+        :type signature: :term:`bytes-like`
 
-        :param bytes data: The data to verify.
+        :param data: The data to verify.
+        :type data: :term:`bytes-like`
 
         :returns: None
         :raises cryptography.exceptions.InvalidSignature: Raised when the