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-rw-r--r--src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl/backend.py3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl/backend.py b/src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl/backend.py
index 59503bd9..60aa4531 100644
--- a/src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl/backend.py
+++ b/src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl/backend.py
@@ -327,7 +327,8 @@ class Backend(object):
bn_num_bytes = (self._lib.BN_num_bits(bn) + 7) // 8
bin_ptr = self._ffi.new("unsigned char[]", bn_num_bytes)
bin_len = self._lib.BN_bn2bin(bn, bin_ptr)
- assert bin_len > 0
+ # A zero length means the BN has value 0
+ assert bin_len >= 0
assert bin_ptr != self._ffi.NULL
return int.from_bytes(self._ffi.buffer(bin_ptr)[:bin_len], "big")