I believe you are referring to the OpenSSL bindings on R as version 1.4.6

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/openssl/index.html

That is different from the openssl installed on the machine through apt linux distribution. If you type the following command in bash, you should see the underlying openssl version.

openssl version -a

OpenSSL 1.1.1f 31 Mar 2020

I am still waiting for answer to this question.