diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 40b682f5..bc71813c 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -358,28 +358,6 @@ version = "1.5.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "f2032f911046de80f0a198e0901378627c33f59ea0ac00e363d481118bd70a53"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "aws-lc-rs"
-version = "1.17.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "5ec2f1fc3ec205783a5da9a7e6c1509cc69dedf09a1949e412c1e18469326d00"
-dependencies = [
- "aws-lc-sys",
- "zeroize",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "aws-lc-sys"
-version = "0.41.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "1a2f9779ce85b93ab6170dd940ad0169b5766ff848247aff13bb788b832fe3f4"
-dependencies = [
- "cc",
- "cmake",
- "dunce",
- "fs_extra",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "axum"
 version = "0.8.9"
@@ -1034,12 +1012,6 @@ version = "1.2.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "75b325c5dbd37f80359721ad39aca5a29fb04c89279657cffdda8736d0c0b9d2"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "dunce"
-version = "1.0.5"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "92773504d58c093f6de2459af4af33faa518c13451eb8f2b5698ed3d36e7c813"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "either"
 version = "1.16.0"
@@ -1294,12 +1266,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "fs_extra"
-version = "1.3.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "42703706b716c37f96a77aea830392ad231f44c9e9a67872fa5548707e11b11c"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "futures"
 version = "0.3.32"
@@ -3898,7 +3864,6 @@ version = "0.23.41"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "6b92b125634d9b795e7beca796cc790df15a7fb38323bf3196fda83292d06b1f"
 dependencies = [
- "aws-lc-rs",
  "log",
  "once_cell",
  "ring",
@@ -3963,7 +3928,6 @@ version = "0.103.13"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "61c429a8649f110dddef65e2a5ad240f747e85f7758a6bccc7e5777bd33f756e"
 dependencies = [
- "aws-lc-rs",
  "ring",
  "rustls-pki-types",
  "untrusted",
diff --git a/crates/pf-client-core/Cargo.toml b/crates/pf-client-core/Cargo.toml
index ac5a03c9..6a759060 100644
--- a/crates/pf-client-core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/pf-client-core/Cargo.toml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ mdns-sd = "0.20"
 # `ureq` is small + sync (the host uses it too) and its rustls unifies with the
 # workspace's (quinn's) 0.23; the pinning verifier mirrors core's private `PinVerify`.
 ureq = "2"
-rustls = { version = "0.23", features = ["ring"] }
+rustls = { version = "0.23", default-features = false, features = ["ring", "logging", "std", "tls12"] }
 serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1"
 anyhow = "1"