diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index b2d47706b..543e58eca 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -887,10 +887,16 @@ find_package(Boost 1.58 QUIET REQUIRED COMPONENTS system filesystem thread date_
 
 set(CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES ${OLD_LIB_SUFFIXES})
 if(NOT Boost_FOUND)
-  die("Could not find Boost libraries, please make sure you have installed Boost or libboost-all-dev (1.58) or the equivalent")
+  die("Could not find Boost libraries, please make sure you have installed Boost or libboost-all-dev (>=1.58) or the equivalent")
 elseif(Boost_FOUND)
   message(STATUS "Found Boost Version: ${Boost_VERSION}")
-  if (Boost_VERSION VERSION_LESS 106200 AND NOT (OPENSSL_VERSION VERSION_LESS 1.1))
+  if (Boost_VERSION VERSION_LESS 10 AND Boost_VERSION VERSION_LESS 1.62.0 AND NOT (OPENSSL_VERSION VERSION_LESS 1.1))
+    set(BOOST_BEFORE_1_62 true)
+  endif()
+  if (NOT Boost_VERSION VERSION_LESS 10 AND Boost_VERSION VERSION_LESS 106200 AND NOT (OPENSSL_VERSION VERSION_LESS 1.1))
+    set(BOOST_BEFORE_1_62 true)
+  endif()
+  if (BOOST_BEFORE_1_62)
       message(FATAL_ERROR "Boost older than 1.62 is too old to link with OpenSSL 1.1 or newer. "
                           "Update Boost or install OpenSSL 1.0 and set path to it when running cmake: "
                           "cmake -DOPENSSL_ROOT_DIR='/usr/include/openssl-1.0;/usr/lib/openssl-1.0'")