How is OpenSSL related to OpenSSH?

OpenSSH is a program depending on OpenSSL the library, specifically OpenSSH uses the libcrypto part of OpenSSL.

OpenSSH can be compiled without OpenSSL since 2014:

• http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/04/30/1822209/openssh-no-longer-has-to-depend-on-openssl
• http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=139879453001957&w=2

The author stated that this was in the making for a long time, but Heartbleed was likely the last straw.