diff --git a/docs/INTERNALS b/docs/INTERNALS
index 05fa75565..6bf3c92cd 100644
--- a/docs/INTERNALS
+++ b/docs/INTERNALS
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Portability
  want it to remain functional and buildable with these and later versions
  (older versions may still work but is not what we work hard to maintain):
 
- OpenSSL      0.9.6
+ OpenSSL      0.9.7
  GnuTLS       1.2
  zlib         1.1.4
  libssh2      0.16
diff --git a/lib/vtls/openssl.c b/lib/vtls/openssl.c
index 0e9c8f0bd..c4896008c 100644
--- a/lib/vtls/openssl.c
+++ b/lib/vtls/openssl.c
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@
 #include <openssl/dh.h>
 #include <openssl/err.h>
 #include <openssl/md5.h>
+#include <openssl/conf.h>
 #else
 #include <rand.h>
 #include <x509v3.h>
@@ -740,6 +741,7 @@ int Curl_ossl_init(void)
     return 0;
 
   OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms();
+  OPENSSL_config(NULL);
 
   return 1;
 }