diff --git a/include/openssl/ssl.h b/include/openssl/ssl.h
index 65fc56e..58a32bb 100644
--- a/include/openssl/ssl.h
+++ b/include/openssl/ssl.h
@@ -3918,9 +3918,6 @@
   uint8_t server_random[SSL3_RANDOM_SIZE];
   uint8_t client_random[SSL3_RANDOM_SIZE];
 
-  /* flags for countermeasure against known-IV weakness */
-  int need_record_splitting;
-
   /* have_version is true if the connection's final version is known. Otherwise
    * the version has not been negotiated yet. */
   char have_version;
diff --git a/ssl/t1_enc.c b/ssl/t1_enc.c
index 51b7082..8119025 100644
--- a/ssl/t1_enc.c
+++ b/ssl/t1_enc.c
@@ -369,19 +369,7 @@
       evp_aead_seal, ssl3_version_from_wire(s, s->version),
       s->s3->tmp.new_cipher, key, key_len, mac_secret, mac_secret_len, iv,
       iv_len);
-  if (s->aead_write_ctx == NULL) {
-    return 0;
-  }
-
-  s->s3->need_record_splitting = 0;
-  if (!SSL_USE_EXPLICIT_IV(s) &&
-      (s->mode & SSL_MODE_CBC_RECORD_SPLITTING) != 0 &&
-      SSL_CIPHER_is_block_cipher(s->s3->tmp.new_cipher)) {
-    /* Enable 1/n-1 record-splitting to randomize the IV. See
-     * https://www.openssl.org/~bodo/tls-cbc.txt and the BEAST attack. */
-    s->s3->need_record_splitting = 1;
-  }
-  return 1;
+  return s->aead_write_ctx != NULL;
 }
 
 int tls1_setup_key_block(SSL *s) {
diff --git a/ssl/tls_record.c b/ssl/tls_record.c
index e3eccd7..3381eae 100644
--- a/ssl/tls_record.c
+++ b/ssl/tls_record.c
@@ -122,6 +122,14 @@
  * forever. */
 static const uint8_t kMaxEmptyRecords = 32;
 
+/* ssl_needs_record_splitting returns one if |ssl|'s current outgoing cipher
+ * state needs record-splitting and zero otherwise. */
+static int ssl_needs_record_splitting(const SSL *ssl) {
+  return !SSL_USE_EXPLICIT_IV(ssl) && ssl->aead_write_ctx != NULL &&
+         (ssl->mode & SSL_MODE_CBC_RECORD_SPLITTING) != 0 &&
+         SSL_CIPHER_is_block_cipher(ssl->aead_write_ctx->cipher);
+}
+
 size_t ssl_record_prefix_len(const SSL *ssl) {
   if (SSL_IS_DTLS(ssl)) {
     return DTLS1_RT_HEADER_LENGTH +
@@ -139,7 +147,7 @@
   } else {
     size_t ret = SSL3_RT_HEADER_LENGTH +
                  SSL_AEAD_CTX_explicit_nonce_len(ssl->aead_write_ctx);
-    if (ssl->s3->need_record_splitting) {
+    if (ssl_needs_record_splitting(ssl)) {
       ret += SSL3_RT_HEADER_LENGTH;
       ret += ssl_cipher_get_record_split_len(ssl->aead_write_ctx->cipher);
     }
@@ -154,7 +162,7 @@
   } else {
     size_t ret = SSL3_RT_HEADER_LENGTH +
                  SSL_AEAD_CTX_max_overhead(ssl->aead_write_ctx);
-    if (ssl->s3->need_record_splitting) {
+    if (ssl_needs_record_splitting(ssl)) {
       ret *= 2;
     }
     return ret;
@@ -300,8 +308,8 @@
 int tls_seal_record(SSL *ssl, uint8_t *out, size_t *out_len, size_t max_out,
                     uint8_t type, const uint8_t *in, size_t in_len) {
   size_t frag_len = 0;
-  if (ssl->s3->need_record_splitting && type == SSL3_RT_APPLICATION_DATA &&
-      in_len > 1) {
+  if (type == SSL3_RT_APPLICATION_DATA && in_len > 1 &&
+      ssl_needs_record_splitting(ssl)) {
     /* |do_seal_record| will notice if it clobbers |in[0]|, but not if it
      * aliases the rest of |in|. */
     if (in + 1 <= out && out < in + in_len) {