diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7448d150be..82ccb07d9f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-??-??
     - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
       This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its symptoms
       less severe.  Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
+    - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a.  All other supported
+      OpenSSL versions should have been working fine.  Diagnosis and patch
+      from lodger, Karsten Loesing and Sebastian Hahn.  Fixes bug 616.
+      Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
 
 
 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
diff --git a/src/common/tortls.c b/src/common/tortls.c
index 21108820d6..24e0a4071a 100644
--- a/src/common/tortls.c
+++ b/src/common/tortls.c
@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ tor_tls_create_certificate(crypto_pk_env_t *rsa,
  * SSL3_TXT_RSA_NULL_SHA.  If you do this, you won't be able to communicate
  * with any of the "real" Tors, though. */
 
-#if OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER >= 0x00908000l
+#if OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER >= 0x00908020l
 #define CLIENT_CIPHER_LIST                         \
   (TLS1_TXT_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA ":"   \
    TLS1_TXT_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA ":"     \