# HG changeset patch
# User Jeff Forcier <jeff@bitprophet.org>
# Date 1653073808 14400
#      Fri May 20 15:10:08 2022 -0400
# Node ID 000487142baa3de409312f350c02338688cc78fb
# Parent  91d6f61f5a442bac68719b9c355bcf3629c47a23
Changelog closes #1637, closes #1599

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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