diff --git a/gnu/packages/rust.scm b/gnu/packages/rust.scm
index f53c69e4f2..a1f39fbc94 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/rust.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/rust.scm
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@
     (inputs
      `(("libcurl" ,curl)
        ("llvm" ,llvm)
-       ("openssl" ,openssl)
+       ("openssl" ,openssl-1.1)
        ("zlib" ,zlib)))
     (native-inputs
      `(("bison" ,bison)