diff --git a/requests/help.py b/requests/help.py
index 695b5ee2..cd961c78 100644
--- a/requests/help.py
+++ b/requests/help.py
@@ -85,12 +85,16 @@ def info():
         'version': getattr(cryptography, '__version__', ''),
     }
 
+    # OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER doesn't exist in the Python 2.6 ssl module.
+    system_ssl = getattr(ssl, 'OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER', None)
+    system_ssl_info = {
+        'version': '%x' % system_ssl if system_ssl is not None else ''
+    }
+
     return {
         'platform': platform_info,
         'implementation': implementation_info,
-        'system_ssl': {
-            'version': '%x' % ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER,
-        },
+        'system_ssl': system_ssl_info,
         'using_pyopenssl': pyopenssl is not None,
         'pyOpenSSL': pyopenssl_info,
         'urllib3': urllib3_info,