diff --git a/package/qpdf/Config.in b/package/qpdf/Config.in
index eadfc5ea92..047c4c8a75 100644
--- a/package/qpdf/Config.in
+++ b/package/qpdf/Config.in
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_QPDF
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_5 # C++14
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_ZLIB
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_JPEG
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBOPENSSL_ENABLE_RC4 if BR2_PACKAGE_LIBOPENSSL
 	help
 	  QPDF is a command-line program that does structural,
 	  content- preserving transformations on PDF files. It could