diff --git a/packages/openssh/build.sh b/packages/openssh/build.sh
index ca15a9f38..2a8998a30 100755
--- a/packages/openssh/build.sh
+++ b/packages/openssh/build.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=http://www.openssh.com/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Secure shell for logging into a remote machine"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=7.2p2
-TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_REVISION=7
-TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=http://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/openssh-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=7.3p1
+TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=http://mirrors.mit.edu/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/openssh-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libandroid-support, ldns, openssl"
 # --disable-strip to prevent host "install" command to use "-s", which won't work for target binaries:
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="--with-cflags=-Dfd_mask=int --with-ldns --disable-etc-default-login --disable-lastlog --disable-utmp --disable-utmpx --disable-wtmp --disable-wtmpx --disable-libutil --disable-pututline --disable-pututxline --without-stackprotect --with-pid-dir=$TERMUX_PREFIX/var/run --disable-strip --sysconfdir=$TERMUX_PREFIX/etc/ssh --without-ssh1"
diff --git a/packages/openssh/openbsd-compat-xcrypt.c.patch b/packages/openssh/openbsd-compat-xcrypt.c.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d3b0d3758
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/openssh/openbsd-compat-xcrypt.c.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+diff -u -r ../openssh-7.3p1/openbsd-compat/xcrypt.c ./openbsd-compat/xcrypt.c
+--- ../openssh-7.3p1/openbsd-compat/xcrypt.c	2016-07-27 18:54:27.000000000 -0400
++++ ./openbsd-compat/xcrypt.c	2016-08-08 14:44:44.488143396 -0400
+@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@
+ 	if (salt[0] != '\0')
+ 		return salt;
+ 	strlcpy(salt, "xx", sizeof(salt));
++#ifndef __ANDROID__
+ 	setpwent();
+ 	while ((pw = getpwent()) != NULL) {
+ 		passwd = shadow_pw(pw);
+@@ -92,6 +93,7 @@
+ 	}
+  out:
+ 	endpwent();
++#endif
+ 	return salt;
+ }
+