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-rw-r--r--src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/multibackend.py7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/multibackend.py b/src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/multibackend.py
index 65f18531..48bc7d08 100644
--- a/src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/multibackend.py
+++ b/src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/multibackend.py
@@ -28,6 +28,13 @@ class MultiBackend(object):
name = "multibackend"
def __init__(self, backends):
+ if len(backends) == 0:
+ raise ValueError(
+ "Multibackend cannot be initialized with no backends. If you "
+ "are seeing this error when trying to use default_backend() "
+ "please try uninstalling and reinstalling cryptography."
+ )
+
self._backends = backends
def _filtered_backends(self, interface):