diff --git a/package/ibrcommon/0004-ssl-Fix-compilation-without-deprecated-OpenSSL-1.1-A.patch b/package/ibrcommon/0004-ssl-Fix-compilation-without-deprecated-OpenSSL-1.1-A.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8a8b21ce7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/ibrcommon/0004-ssl-Fix-compilation-without-deprecated-OpenSSL-1.1-A.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+From 073a1b779826d1e1bbf473ba45db3ac1e273efce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
+Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 10:18:37 -0800
+Subject: [PATCH] ssl: Fix compilation without deprecated OpenSSL 1.1 APIs
+
+Upstream: https://github.com/morgenroth/ibrdtn/commit/073a1b779826d1e1bbf473ba45db3ac1e273efce
+
+Signed-off-by: Bernd Kuhls <bernd@kuhls.net>
+---
+ ibrcommon/ssl/TLSStream.cpp | 6 ++++++
+ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/ibrcommon/ssl/TLSStream.cpp b/ibrcommon/ssl/TLSStream.cpp
+index b18b43c3..e336db55 100644
+--- a/ibrcommon/ssl/TLSStream.cpp
++++ b/ibrcommon/ssl/TLSStream.cpp
+@@ -259,16 +259,22 @@ namespace ibrcommon
+ 		/* openssl initialization */
+ 		/* the if block is needed because SSL_library_init() is not reentrant */
+ 		if(!_SSL_initialized){
++#if OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER < 0x10100000L
+ 			SSL_load_error_strings();
+ 			SSL_library_init();
+ 			ERR_load_BIO_strings();
+ 			ERR_load_SSL_strings();
++#endif
+ 			_SSL_initialized = true;
+ 		}
+ 
+ 
+ 		/* create ssl context and throw exception if it fails */
++#if OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER < 0x10100000L
+ 		_ssl_ctx = SSL_CTX_new(TLSv1_method());
++#else
++		_ssl_ctx = SSL_CTX_new(TLS_method());
++#endif
+ 		if(!_ssl_ctx){
+ 			char err_buf[ERR_BUF_SIZE];
+ 			ERR_error_string_n(ERR_get_error(), err_buf, ERR_BUF_SIZE);
+-- 
+2.47.3
+