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Diffstat (limited to 'src/cryptography/x509/name.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/cryptography/x509/name.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/cryptography/x509/name.py b/src/cryptography/x509/name.py index 922cab5a..6816e063 100644 --- a/src/cryptography/x509/name.py +++ b/src/cryptography/x509/name.py @@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ _NAMEOID_TO_NAME = { def _escape_dn_value(val): """Escape special characters in RFC4514 Distinguished Name value.""" + if not val: + return '' + # See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4514#section-2.4 val = val.replace('\\', '\\\\') val = val.replace('"', '\\"') @@ -93,9 +96,6 @@ class NameAttribute(object): "Country name must be a 2 character country code" ) - if len(value) == 0: - raise ValueError("Value cannot be an empty string") - # The appropriate ASN1 string type varies by OID and is defined across # multiple RFCs including 2459, 3280, and 5280. In general UTF8String # is preferred (2459), but 3280 and 5280 specify several OIDs with |