diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 474f750..397bda4 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ AC_FUNC_FORK
 AC_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK
 AC_FUNC_STRNLEN
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS([atexit dup2 ftruncate getcwd gettimeofday localtime_r memchr memset mkdir rmdir setlocale socket strcasecmp strchr strdup strerror strncasecmp strndup strrchr strspn strstr strtol strtoul], , [AC_MSG_FAILURE([cannot find the $ac_func function, which i3lock requires])])
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([explicit_bzero])
 
 # Checks for libraries.
 
diff --git a/i3lock.c b/i3lock.c
index bab41e0..0c3f5b6 100644
--- a/i3lock.c
+++ b/i3lock.c
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@
 #include <security/pam_appl.h>
 #endif
 #include <getopt.h>
-#include <string.h>
 #include <ev.h>
 #include <sys/mman.h>
 #include <xkbcommon/xkbcommon.h>
@@ -35,7 +34,7 @@
 #include <xkbcommon/xkbcommon-x11.h>
 #include <cairo.h>
 #include <cairo/cairo-xcb.h>
-#ifdef __OpenBSD__
+#ifdef HAVE_EXPLICIT_BZERO
 #include <strings.h> /* explicit_bzero(3) */
 #endif
 #include <xcb/xcb_aux.h>
@@ -175,7 +174,7 @@ static bool load_compose_table(const char *locale) {
  *
  */
 static void clear_password_memory(void) {
-#ifdef __OpenBSD__
+#ifdef HAVE_EXPLICIT_BZERO
     /* Use explicit_bzero(3) which was explicitly designed not to be
      * optimized out by the compiler. */
     explicit_bzero(password, strlen(password));