diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 04a65869c..8802d5e16 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,25 @@ members = [
 ]
 
 [patch.crates-io]
-signature = { path = "signature" }
+# Use crates.io patch instead of a `path = "../foo"` in each
+# crate of this workspace.
+# This allows to pull a git dependency from outside this workspace
+# without having to also pull all the transitive dependencies from
+# within this workspace.
+# Otherwise, the transitive dependency gets duplicated and you end
+# up with objects not implementing trait error that are hard to debug.
+aead             = { path = "./aead" }
+async-signature  = { path = "./async-signature" }
+cipher           = { path = "./cipher" }
+crypto           = { path = "./crypto" }
+crypto-common    = { path = "./crypto-common" }
+digest           = { path = "./digest" }
+elliptic-curve   = { path = "./elliptic-curve" }
+kem              = { path = "./kem" }
+password-hash    = { path = "./password-hash" }
+signature_derive = { path = "./signature_derive" }
+universal-hash   = { path = "./universal-hash" }
+signature        = { path = "./signature" }
 
 sha2 = { git = "https://github.com/RustCrypto/hashes" }
 sha3 = { git = "https://github.com/RustCrypto/hashes" }
diff --git a/aead/Cargo.toml b/aead/Cargo.toml
index 6259fcfc6..b564de47f 100644
--- a/aead/Cargo.toml
+++ b/aead/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ keywords = ["crypto", "encryption"]
 categories = ["cryptography", "no-std"]
 
 [dependencies]
-crypto-common = { version = "0.2.0-rc.1", path = "../crypto-common" }
+crypto-common = "0.2.0-rc.1"
 
 # optional dependencies
 arrayvec = { version = "0.7", optional = true, default-features = false }
diff --git a/cipher/Cargo.toml b/cipher/Cargo.toml
index 79bb3c59b..cbdf3025f 100644
--- a/cipher/Cargo.toml
+++ b/cipher/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ keywords = ["crypto", "block-cipher", "stream-cipher", "trait"]
 categories = ["cryptography", "no-std"]
 
 [dependencies]
-crypto-common = { version = "0.2.0-rc.2", path = "../crypto-common" }
+crypto-common = "0.2.0-rc.2"
 inout = "0.2.0-rc.4"
 
 # optional dependencies
diff --git a/crypto/Cargo.toml b/crypto/Cargo.toml
index 855af57ed..be65e6684 100644
--- a/crypto/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crypto/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,16 +13,16 @@ edition = "2024"
 rust-version = "1.85"
 
 [dependencies]
-crypto-common = { version = "0.2.0-rc.1", path = "../crypto-common", default-features = false }
+crypto-common = { version = "0.2.0-rc.1", default-features = false }
 
 # optional dependencies
-aead = { version = "0.6.0-rc.0", path = "../aead", optional = true }
-cipher = { version = "0.5.0-pre.7", path = "../cipher", optional = true }
-digest = { version = "0.11.0-pre.9", path = "../digest", optional = true, features = ["mac"] }
-elliptic-curve = { version = "0.14.0-rc.1", path = "../elliptic-curve", optional = true }
-password-hash = { version = "0.6.0-rc.0", path = "../password-hash", optional = true }
-signature = { version = "2.3.0-pre.6", path = "../signature", optional = true, default-features = false }
-universal-hash = { version = "0.6.0-rc.0", path = "../universal-hash", optional = true }
+aead = { version = "0.6.0-rc.0", optional = true }
+cipher = { version = "0.5.0-pre.7", optional = true }
+digest = { version = "0.11.0-pre.9", optional = true, features = ["mac"] }
+elliptic-curve = { version = "0.14.0-rc.1", optional = true }
+password-hash = { version = "0.6.0-rc.0", optional = true }
+signature = { version = "2.3.0-pre.6", optional = true, default-features = false }
+universal-hash = { version = "0.6.0-rc.0", optional = true }
 
 [features]
 std = [
diff --git a/digest/Cargo.toml b/digest/Cargo.toml
index 317d2a607..d5df2d28a 100644
--- a/digest/Cargo.toml
+++ b/digest/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ keywords = ["digest", "crypto", "hash"]
 categories = ["cryptography", "no-std"]
 
 [dependencies]
-crypto-common = { version = "0.2.0-rc.2", path = "../crypto-common" }
+crypto-common = "0.2.0-rc.2"
 
 # optional dependencies
 block-buffer = { version = "0.11.0-rc.4", optional = true }
diff --git a/signature/Cargo.toml b/signature/Cargo.toml
index c8a0047dd..d4bec20b6 100644
--- a/signature/Cargo.toml
+++ b/signature/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ edition = "2024"
 rust-version = "1.85"
 
 [dependencies]
-derive = { package = "signature_derive", version = "2", optional = true, path = "../signature_derive" }
+derive = { package = "signature_derive", version = "2", optional = true }
 digest = { version = "=0.11.0-pre.10", optional = true, default-features = false }
 rand_core = { version = "0.9", optional = true, default-features = false }
 
diff --git a/universal-hash/Cargo.toml b/universal-hash/Cargo.toml
index bf1993107..496834ae5 100644
--- a/universal-hash/Cargo.toml
+++ b/universal-hash/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ keywords = ["crypto", "mac"]
 categories = ["cryptography", "no-std"]
 
 [dependencies]
-crypto-common = { version = "0.2.0-rc.1", path = "../crypto-common" }
+crypto-common = "0.2.0-rc.1"
 subtle = { version = "2.4", default-features = false }
 
 [package.metadata.docs.rs]