Comment (by Jonah Miller):

Ah, I see! Yes, I discovered this when github refused to talk to my machine. Okay, I’ll mark this as resolved.

It might be worth mentioning on the downloads page that the user needs an up-to-date version of OpenSSL. And/or provide an alternative version of the thornlist for those with out-of-date libraries.

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Ticket URL: https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2293/thornlists-entry-for-external-libraries-on