diff --git a/security/sslsplit/Makefile b/security/sslsplit/Makefile
index 3cd962594ba4..b6940e92d8cb 100644
--- a/security/sslsplit/Makefile
+++ b/security/sslsplit/Makefile
@@ -1,31 +1,36 @@
 PORTNAME=	sslsplit
 PORTVERSION=	0.5.5
 PORTREVISION=	1
 CATEGORIES=	security
 MASTER_SITES=	http://mirror.roe.ch/rel/sslsplit/
 
 MAINTAINER=	bofh@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Transparent and scalable SSL/TLS interception
 WWW=		https://www.roe.ch/SSLsplit
 
 LICENSE=	BSD2CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 DEPRECATED= Upstream has mentioned inactivity with the possibility of returning
-IGNORE_SSL=	openssl30 openssl31
-IGNORE_SSL_REASON=	error: undefined symbol: ERR_GET_FUNC which were deprecated in OpenSSL 3.0.0 and later
 
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libevent.so:devel/libevent \
 		libnet.so:net/libnet
 
 USES=		gmake pkgconfig tar:bzip2 uidfix ssl
 MAKEFILE=	GNUmakefile
 MAKE_ENV=	MANDIR=${PREFIX}/man INSTALLUID=${UID} INSTALLGID=${GID}
 PLIST_FILES=	bin/sslsplit man/man1/sslsplit.1.gz \
 		man/man5/sslsplit.conf.5.gz \
 		"@sample %%ETCDIR%%/sslsplit.conf.sample"
 
+.include <bsd.port.options.mk>
+
+.if ( ${OPSYS} == FreeBSD && ${OSVERSION} >= 1400092 && ${SSL_DEFAULT} == base ) || ${SSL_DEFAULT:Mopenssl3*}
+IGNORE_SSL=	base openssl30 openssl31
+IGNORE_SSL_REASON=	error: undefined symbol: ERR_GET_FUNC which were deprecated in OpenSSL 3.0.0 and later
+.endif
+
 post-install:
 	${STRIP_CMD} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/bin/sslsplit
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>