[konimex]

> but a year or 2 ago the went back to OpenSSL for some reason which I did not fully understand.

That would be Void Linux [1]. One of the reasons iirc, is PEP 644 [2], in which CPython drops support for LibreSSL due to it not being fully compatible with OpenSSL 1.1.1 APIs.

[1] https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/20935

[2] https://peps.python.org/pep-0644