diff --git a/package/rhash/Config.in b/package/rhash/Config.in
index 2ddcb00feb..35ccb3833e 100644
--- a/package/rhash/Config.in
+++ b/package/rhash/Config.in
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 config BR2_PACKAGE_RHASH
 	bool "rhash"
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBOPENSSL_ENABLE_RMD160 if BR2_PACKAGE_LIBOPENSSL
 	help
 	  LibRHash is a professional, portable, thread-safe C library
 	  for computing a wide variety of hash sums, such as CRC32,