diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index acaff6bd09ec..e279620453cc 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -241,6 +241,7 @@ futures = "0.3"
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["rt", "signal"] }
 
 ipnet = { version = "2.10", optional = true }
+reqwest = { version = "0.13", features = ["blocking"], optional = true }
 
 mimalloc = { version = "0.1", default-features = false, optional = true }
 tcmalloc = { version = "0.3", optional = true }
@@ -255,19 +256,6 @@ windows-service = { version = "0.8", optional = true }
 [target.'cfg(unix)'.dependencies]
 xdg = "3.0"
 
-[target.'cfg(any(target_arch = "x86", target_arch = "x86_64", target_arch = "aarch64"))'.dependencies]
-reqwest = { version = "0.12", features = [
-    "blocking",
-    "rustls-tls",
-    "rustls-tls-native-roots",
-], default-features = false, optional = true }
-
-[target.'cfg(not(any(target_arch = "x86", target_arch = "x86_64", target_arch = "aarch64")))'.dependencies]
-reqwest = { version = "0.12", features = [
-    "blocking",
-    "native-tls-vendored",
-], optional = true }
-
 [dev-dependencies]
 byteorder = "1.5"
 env_logger = "0.11"
diff --git a/deny.toml b/deny.toml
index 35544ff70f22..73514384f437 100644
--- a/deny.toml
+++ b/deny.toml
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ allow = [
     "CDLA-Permissive-2.0",
     "CC0-1.0",
     "0BSD",
+    "OpenSSL",
 ]
 # The confidence threshold for detecting a license from license text.
 # The higher the value, the more closely the license text must be to the