diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/pom.xml b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/pom.xml
index e6288966efe1e..3b414c3157cd1 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/pom.xml
@@ -99,11 +99,6 @@ https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
         </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
-      <artifactId>bcprov-jdk16</artifactId>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
       <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>