diff --git a/stdlib/Makefile b/stdlib/Makefile
index ebc40c9db2b12..d0c30a5d7c04e 100644
--- a/stdlib/Makefile
+++ b/stdlib/Makefile
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ DIRS := $(build_datarootdir)/julia/stdlib/$(VERSDIR) $(build_prefix)/manifest/$(
 $(foreach dir,$(DIRS),$(eval $(call dir_target,$(dir))))
 
 JLLS = DSFMT GMP CURL LIBGIT2 LLVM LIBSSH2 LIBUV MBEDTLS MPFR NGHTTP2 \
-       BLASTRAMPOLINE OPENBLAS OPENLIBM P7ZIP PCRE LIBSUITESPARSE ZLIB \
-       LLVMUNWIND CSL UNWIND LLD
+       BLASTRAMPOLINE OPENBLAS OPENLIBM OPENSSL P7ZIP PCRE LIBSUITESPARSE \
+       ZLIB LLVMUNWIND CSL UNWIND LLD
 
 # Initialize this with JLLs that aren't in "deps/$(LibName).version"
 JLL_NAMES := MozillaCACerts_jll
diff --git a/stdlib/Manifest.toml b/stdlib/Manifest.toml
index 4df442c6833d1..f915c25dba7ae 100644
--- a/stdlib/Manifest.toml
+++ b/stdlib/Manifest.toml
@@ -171,6 +171,11 @@ deps = ["Artifacts", "Libdl"]
 uuid = "05823500-19ac-5b8b-9628-191a04bc5112"
 version = "0.8.1+2"
 
+[[deps.OpenSSL_jll]]
+deps = ["Artifacts", "Libdl"]
+uuid = "458c3c95-2e84-50aa-8efc-19380b2a3a95"
+version = "3.0.13+0"
+
 [[deps.PCRE2_jll]]
 deps = ["Artifacts", "Libdl"]
 uuid = "efcefdf7-47ab-520b-bdef-62a2eaa19f15"
diff --git a/stdlib/OpenSSL_jll/Project.toml b/stdlib/OpenSSL_jll/Project.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..90f99b05e5d56
--- /dev/null
+++ b/stdlib/OpenSSL_jll/Project.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+name = "OpenSSL_jll"
+uuid = "458c3c95-2e84-50aa-8efc-19380b2a3a95"
+version = "3.0.13+0"
+
+[deps]
+Libdl = "8f399da3-3557-5675-b5ff-fb832c97cbdb"
+Artifacts = "56f22d72-fd6d-98f1-02f0-08ddc0907c33"
+
+[compat]
+julia = "1.6"
+
+[extras]
+Test = "8dfed614-e22c-5e08-85e1-65c5234f0b40"
+
+[targets]
+test = ["Test"]
diff --git a/stdlib/OpenSSL_jll/src/OpenSSL_jll.jl b/stdlib/OpenSSL_jll/src/OpenSSL_jll.jl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..26eb3d243efe2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/stdlib/OpenSSL_jll/src/OpenSSL_jll.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+# This file is a part of Julia. License is MIT: https://julialang.org/license
+
+## dummy stub for https://github.com/JuliaBinaryWrappers/OpenSSL_jll.jl
+
+baremodule OpenSSL_jll
+using Base, Libdl
+
+const PATH_list = String[]
+const LIBPATH_list = String[]
+
+export libcrypto, libssl
+
+# These get calculated in __init__()
+const PATH = Ref("")
+const LIBPATH = Ref("")
+artifact_dir::String = ""
+libcrypto_handle::Ptr{Cvoid} = C_NULL
+libcrypto_path::String = ""
+libssl_handle::Ptr{Cvoid} = C_NULL
+libssl_path::String = ""
+
+if Sys.iswindows()
+    const libcrypto = "libcrypto.dll"
+    const libssl = "libssl.dll"
+elseif Sys.isapple()
+    const libcrypto = "@rpath/libcrypto.3.dylib"
+    const libssl = "@rpath/libssl.3.dylib"
+else
+    const libcrypto = "libcrypto.so.3"
+    const libssl = "libssl.so.3"
+end
+
+function __init__()
+    global libcrypto_handle = dlopen(libcrypto)
+    global libcrypto_path = dlpath(libcrypto_handle)
+    global libssl_handle = dlopen(libssl)
+    global libssl_path = dlpath(libssl_handle)
+    global artifact_dir = dirname(Sys.BINDIR)
+    LIBPATH[] = dirname(libssl_path)
+    push!(LIBPATH_list, LIBPATH[])
+end
+
+# JLLWrappers API compatibility shims.  Note that not all of these will really make sense.
+# For instance, `find_artifact_dir()` won't actually be the artifact directory, because
+# there isn't one.  It instead returns the overall Julia prefix.
+is_available() = true
+find_artifact_dir() = artifact_dir
+dev_jll() = error("stdlib JLLs cannot be dev'ed")
+best_wrapper = nothing
+get_libcrypto_path() = libcrypto_path
+get_libssl_path() = libssl_path
+
+end  # module OpenSSL_jll
diff --git a/stdlib/OpenSSL_jll/test/runtests.jl b/stdlib/OpenSSL_jll/test/runtests.jl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..9c20db436e9f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/stdlib/OpenSSL_jll/test/runtests.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# This file is a part of Julia. License is MIT: https://julialang.org/license
+
+using Test, Libdl, OpenSSL_jll
+
+@testset "OpenSSL_jll" begin
+    major = ccall((:OPENSSL_version_major, libcrypto), Cuint, ())
+    minor = ccall((:OPENSSL_version_minor, libcrypto), Cuint, ())
+    patch = ccall((:OPENSSL_version_patch, libcrypto), Cuint, ())
+    @test VersionNumber(major, minor, patch) == v"3.0.13"
+end
diff --git a/stdlib/Project.toml b/stdlib/Project.toml
index cc7ba99dd4e4f..e7918e988f37d 100644
--- a/stdlib/Project.toml
+++ b/stdlib/Project.toml
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ MozillaCACerts_jll = "14a3606d-f60d-562e-9121-12d972cd8159"
 NetworkOptions = "ca575930-c2e3-43a9-ace4-1e988b2c1908"
 OpenBLAS_jll = "4536629a-c528-5b80-bd46-f80d51c5b363"
 OpenLibm_jll = "05823500-19ac-5b8b-9628-191a04bc5112"
+OpenSSL_jll = "458c3c95-2e84-50aa-8efc-19380b2a3a95"
 PCRE2_jll = "efcefdf7-47ab-520b-bdef-62a2eaa19f15"
 Pkg = "44cfe95a-1eb2-52ea-b672-e2afdf69b78f"
 Printf = "de0858da-6303-5e67-8744-51eddeeeb8d7"
diff --git a/stdlib/stdlib.mk b/stdlib/stdlib.mk
index b79059d3368b1..f8e5a125fb975 100644
--- a/stdlib/stdlib.mk
+++ b/stdlib/stdlib.mk
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ INDEPENDENT_STDLIBS := \
 	SparseArrays Statistics StyledStrings SuiteSparse_jll Tar Test TOML Unicode UUIDs \
 	dSFMT_jll GMP_jll libLLVM_jll LLD_jll LLVMLibUnwind_jll LibUnwind_jll LibUV_jll \
 	LibCURL_jll LibSSH2_jll LibGit2_jll nghttp2_jll  MozillaCACerts_jll MbedTLS_jll \
-	MPFR_jll OpenLibm_jll PCRE2_jll p7zip_jll Zlib_jll
+	MPFR_jll OpenLibm_jll OpenSSL_jll PCRE2_jll p7zip_jll Zlib_jll
 
 STDLIBS := $(STDLIBS_WITHIN_SYSIMG) $(INDEPENDENT_STDLIBS)
 VERSDIR := v$(shell cut -d. -f1-2 < $(JULIAHOME)/VERSION)