diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 1edb627249..950e0f7de8 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Thu May 21 08:54:32 2009  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* ext/openssl/ossl_digest.c (Init_ossl_digest): avoid recursing
+	  require.
+
 Thu May 21 08:50:58 2009  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* lib/rexml/text.rb (REXML::Text.normalize): call to_s for input.
diff --git a/ext/openssl/ossl_digest.c b/ext/openssl/ossl_digest.c
index 2776e786e6..9b8ced5233 100644
--- a/ext/openssl/ossl_digest.c
+++ b/ext/openssl/ossl_digest.c
@@ -233,7 +233,6 @@ ossl_digest_block_length(VALUE self)
 void
 Init_ossl_digest()
 {
-    rb_require("openssl");
     rb_require("digest");
 
 #if 0 /* let rdoc know about mOSSL */