diff --git a/python-cryptography.changes b/python-cryptography.changes
index 64f5b75..6f76ef7 100644
--- a/python-cryptography.changes
+++ b/python-cryptography.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Feb  8 10:54:03 UTC 2018 - tbechtold@suse.com
+
+- Fix previous change and explicitly require python2 instead of
+  python because python itself is also provided by python3.
+  This fixes:
+  ImportError: No module named _ssl
+  when using python-cryptography in a python2 build environment
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Feb  3 13:02:06 UTC 2018 - tchvatal@suse.com
 
diff --git a/python-cryptography.spec b/python-cryptography.spec
index 8ec813c..e28dc8d 100644
--- a/python-cryptography.spec
+++ b/python-cryptography.spec
@@ -68,9 +68,9 @@ BuildRequires:  %{python_module virtualenv}
 # /SECTION
 # python-base is not enough, we need the _ssl module
 %ifpython2
-Requires:       python
 Requires:       python-enum34
 Requires:       python-ipaddress
+Requires:       python2
 %endif
 %ifpython3
 Requires:       python3