native authentication plugin replacement/substitute

Hi all

I am working with a MariaDB C++ connector which we are using to connect to MariaDB server 10.1/10.2/10.3. The authentication mechanism being used is "native authentication" which uses the SHA1Hash function from openssl 1.1 version. However, we need to upgrade to openssl version 3.0 where the the SHA1Hash function has been deprecated and hence the connector can no longer support native authentication for the existing server. What could be a possible replacement/solution in this case? Do I need to upgrade the MariaDB server version or is there any other way I can make it work in this case?

Regards Abhishek