diff --git a/tests/test_page.py b/tests/test_page.py
index 656c5111f..aa6539d94 100644
--- a/tests/test_page.py
+++ b/tests/test_page.py
@@ -333,3 +333,12 @@ def test_text_extraction_issue_1091():
         reader = PdfReader(stream)
     for page in reader.pages:
         page.extract_text()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.xfail(reason="#1088")
+def test_empyt_password_1088():
+    url = "https://corpora.tika.apache.org/base/docs/govdocs1/941/941536.pdf"
+    name = "tika-941536.pdf"
+    stream = BytesIO(get_pdf_from_url(url, name=name))
+    reader = PdfReader(stream)
+    len(reader.pages)