diff --git a/src/random.cpp b/src/random.cpp
--- a/src/random.cpp
+++ b/src/random.cpp
@@ -18,10 +18,6 @@
 #include <sync.h>      // for Mutex
 #include <util/time.h> // for GetTime()
 
-#include <openssl/conf.h>
-#include <openssl/err.h>
-#include <openssl/rand.h>
-
 #include <chrono>
 #include <cstdlib>
 #include <memory>
@@ -392,8 +388,6 @@
 #endif
 }
 
-void LockingCallbackOpenSSL(int mode, int i, const char *file, int line);
-
 namespace {
 
 class RNGState {
@@ -410,32 +404,11 @@
     uint8_t m_state[32] GUARDED_BY(m_mutex) = {0};
     uint64_t m_counter GUARDED_BY(m_mutex) = 0;
     bool m_strongly_seeded GUARDED_BY(m_mutex) = false;
-    std::unique_ptr<Mutex[]> m_mutex_openssl;
 
 public:
-    RNGState() noexcept {
-        InitHardwareRand();
-
-        // Init OpenSSL library multithreading support
-        m_mutex_openssl.reset(new Mutex[CRYPTO_num_locks()]);
-        CRYPTO_set_locking_callback(LockingCallbackOpenSSL);
-
-        // OpenSSL can optionally load a config file which lists optional
-        // loadable modules and engines. We don't use them so we don't require
-        // the config. However some of our libs may call functions which attempt
-        // to load the config file, possibly resulting in an exit() or crash if
-        // it is missing or corrupt. Explicitly tell OpenSSL not to try to load
-        // the file. The result for our libs will be that the config appears to
-        // have been loaded and there are no modules/engines available.
-        OPENSSL_no_config();
-    }
+    RNGState() noexcept { InitHardwareRand(); }
 
-    ~RNGState() {
-        // Securely erase the memory used by the OpenSSL PRNG
-        RAND_cleanup();
-        // Shutdown OpenSSL library multithreading support
-        CRYPTO_set_locking_callback(nullptr);
-    }
+    ~RNGState() {}
 
     /**
      * Extract up to 32 bytes of entropy from the RNG state, mixing in new
@@ -475,8 +448,6 @@
         memory_cleanse(buf, 64);
         return ret;
     }
-
-    Mutex &GetOpenSSLMutex(int i) { return m_mutex_openssl[i]; }
 };
 
 RNGState &GetRNGState() noexcept {
@@ -488,17 +459,6 @@
 }
 } // namespace
 
-void LockingCallbackOpenSSL(int mode, int i, const char *file,
-                            int line) NO_THREAD_SAFETY_ANALYSIS {
-    RNGState &rng = GetRNGState();
-
-    if (mode & CRYPTO_LOCK) {
-        rng.GetOpenSSLMutex(i).lock();
-    } else {
-        rng.GetOpenSSLMutex(i).unlock();
-    }
-}
-
 /**
  * A note on the use of noexcept in the seeding functions below:
  *