README.md in fernet-1.3 vs README.md in fernet-1.4
- old
+ new
@@ -52,9 +52,20 @@
* The secret used to generate the token matches
Otherwise, `verified` will be false, and you should deny the request with an
HTTP 401, for example.
+The `Fernet.verify` method can be awkward if extracting the plain text data is
+required. For this case, a `verifier` can be requested that makes more
+pleasent:
+
+```ruby
+verifier = Fernet.verifier(secret, token)
+if verifier.valid? # signature valid, TTL verified
+ operate_on(verifier.data) # the original, decrypted data
+end
+```
+
The specs
([spec/fernet_spec.rb](https://github.com/hgmnz/fernet/blob/master/spec/fernet_spec.rb))
have more usage examples.
### Global configuration