diff -r 6f4627a65c0a Misc/ACKS
--- a/Misc/ACKS	Sun May 05 08:14:53 2013 +0200
+++ b/Misc/ACKS	Sun May 12 10:42:09 2013 -0400
@@ -208,6 +208,7 @@
 Brad Chapman
 Greg Chapman
 Mitch Chapman
+Yogesh Chaudhari
 David Chaum
 Nicolas Chauvat
 Jerry Chen
diff -r 6f4627a65c0a Misc/NEWS
--- a/Misc/NEWS	Sun May 05 08:14:53 2013 +0200
+++ b/Misc/NEWS	Sun May 12 10:42:09 2013 -0400
@@ -238,6 +238,11 @@
 - Issue #6696: add documentation for the Profile objects, and improve
   profile/cProfile docs.  Patch by Tom Pinckney.
 
+Build
+-----
+
+- Issue #17962: Broken OpenSSL version in Windows builds modified to 1.0.1e
+
 C-API
 -----
 
diff -r 6f4627a65c0a PC/VS9.0/pyproject.vsprops
--- a/PC/VS9.0/pyproject.vsprops	Sun May 05 08:14:53 2013 +0200
+++ b/PC/VS9.0/pyproject.vsprops	Sun May 12 10:42:09 2013 -0400
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 	/>
 	<UserMacro
 		Name="opensslDir"
-		Value="$(externalsDir)\openssl-1.0.1d"
+		Value="$(externalsDir)\openssl-1.0.1e"
 	/>
 	<UserMacro
 		Name="tcltkDir"
diff -r 6f4627a65c0a PCbuild/pyproject.props
--- a/PCbuild/pyproject.props	Sun May 05 08:14:53 2013 +0200
+++ b/PCbuild/pyproject.props	Sun May 12 10:42:09 2013 -0400
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
     <sqlite3Dir>$(externalsDir)\sqlite-3.7.12</sqlite3Dir>
     <bz2Dir>$(externalsDir)\bzip2-1.0.6</bz2Dir>
     <lzmaDir>$(externalsDir)\xz-5.0.3</lzmaDir>
-    <opensslDir>$(externalsDir)\openssl-1.0.1d</opensslDir>
+    <opensslDir>$(externalsDir)\openssl-1.0.1e</opensslDir>
     <tcltkDir>$(externalsDir)\tcltk</tcltkDir>
     <tcltk64Dir>$(externalsDir)\tcltk64</tcltk64Dir>
     <tcltkLib>$(tcltkDir)\lib\tcl85.lib;$(tcltkDir)\lib\tk85.lib</tcltkLib>
diff -r 6f4627a65c0a PCbuild/readme.txt
--- a/PCbuild/readme.txt	Sun May 05 08:14:53 2013 +0200
+++ b/PCbuild/readme.txt	Sun May 12 10:42:09 2013 -0400
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@
 
     Get the source code through
 
-    svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/openssl-1.0.1d
+    svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/openssl-1.0.1e
 
     ** NOTE: if you use the Tools\buildbot\external(-amd64).bat approach for
     obtaining external sources then you don't need to manually get the source
diff -r 6f4627a65c0a Tools/buildbot/external-common.bat
--- a/Tools/buildbot/external-common.bat	Sun May 05 08:14:53 2013 +0200
+++ b/Tools/buildbot/external-common.bat	Sun May 12 10:42:09 2013 -0400
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 @rem if exist tk8.4.16 rd /s/q tk8.4.16
 @rem if exist tk-8.4.18.1 rd /s/q tk-8.4.18.1
 @rem if exist db-4.4.20 rd /s/q db-4.4.20
-@rem if exist openssl-1.0.1d rd /s/q openssl-1.0.1d
+@rem if exist openssl-1.0.1e rd /s/q openssl-1.0.1e
 @rem if exist sqlite-3.7.12 rd /s/q sqlite-3.7.12    
 
 @rem bzip
@@ -24,9 +24,9 @@
 )
 
 @rem OpenSSL
-if not exist openssl-1.0.1d (
-    rd /s/q openssl-1.0.1c
-    svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/openssl-1.0.1d
+if not exist openssl-1.0.1e (
+    rd /s/q openssl-1.0.1d
+    svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/openssl-1.0.1e
 )
 
 @rem tcl/tk