def verify(self, message, signature):
        """Verifies a message against a signature.

        Args:
            message: string or bytes, The message to verify. If string, will be
                     encoded to bytes as utf-8.
            signature: string or bytes, The signature on the message.

        Returns:
            True if message was signed by the private key associated with the
            public key that this object was constructed with.
        """
        message = _helpers._to_bytes(message, encoding='utf-8')
        return PKCS1_v1_5.new(self._pubkey).verify(
            SHA256.new(message), signature)
Verifies a message against a signature.

        Args:
            message: string or bytes, The message to verify. If string, will be
                     encoded to bytes as utf-8.
            signature: string or bytes, The signature on the message.

        Returns:
            True if message was signed by the private key associated with the
            public key that this object was constructed with.