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 Changelog
 =========
 
+- bug:`1637` (via :issue:`1599`) Raise `SSHException` explicitly when blank
+  private key data is loaded, instead of the natural result of ``IndexError``.
+  This should help more bits of Paramiko or Paramiko-adjacent codebases to
+  correctly handle this class of error. Credit: Nicholas Dietz.
 - :release:`2.9.5 <2022-05-16>`
 - :bug:`1933` Align signature verification algorithm with OpenSSH re:
   zero-padding signatures which don't match their nominal size/length. This