commit b2a2050ba84e9cc2499711e24deede7cb446c516
author Paul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com> Thu Dec 11 15:26:21 2014 -0600
committer Paul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com> Mon Dec 15 15:49:49 2014 -0600
tree 1635f8ce6f5266ee8cb904fde0969380469fcaae
parent b2de948b18316ac5f08b22d1ab22bdd49da9cc5f

simplify serial conversion

src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl/x509.py

diff --git a/src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl/x509.py b/src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl/x509.py
index 35313b2..383322a 100644
--- a/src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl/x509.py
+++ b/src/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl/x509.py
@@ -56,9 +56,8 @@
             asn1_int, self._backend._ffi.NULL
         )
         assert bn != self._backend._ffi.NULL
-        serial = self._backend._lib.BN_bn2hex(bn)
-        assert serial != self._backend._ffi.NULL
-        return int(self._backend._ffi.string(serial), 16)
+        bn = self._backend._ffi.gc(bn, self._backend._lib.BN_free)
+        return self._backend._bn_to_int(bn)
 
     def public_key(self):
         pkey = self._backend._lib.X509_get_pubkey(self._x509)