diff --git a/polkadot/Cargo.lock b/polkadot/Cargo.lock
index e8b429169e6e..aa9c0be97b59 100644
--- a/polkadot/Cargo.lock
+++ b/polkadot/Cargo.lock
@@ -2431,21 +2431,6 @@ version = "1.0.7"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "3f9eec918d3f24069decb9af1554cad7c880e2da24a9afd88aca000531ab82c1"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "foreign-types"
-version = "0.3.2"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "f6f339eb8adc052cd2ca78910fda869aefa38d22d5cb648e6485e4d3fc06f3b1"
-dependencies = [
- "foreign-types-shared",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "foreign-types-shared"
-version = "0.1.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "00b0228411908ca8685dba7fc2cdd70ec9990a6e753e89b6ac91a84c40fbaf4b"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "fork-tree"
 version = "3.0.0"
@@ -3386,19 +3371,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio-rustls 0.24.1",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "hyper-tls"
-version = "0.5.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "d6183ddfa99b85da61a140bea0efc93fdf56ceaa041b37d553518030827f9905"
-dependencies = [
- "bytes",
- "hyper",
- "native-tls",
- "tokio",
- "tokio-native-tls",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "ident_case"
 version = "1.0.1"
@@ -5066,24 +5038,6 @@ version = "0.7.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "6a51313c5820b0b02bd422f4b44776fbf47961755c74ce64afc73bfad10226c3"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "native-tls"
-version = "0.2.11"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "07226173c32f2926027b63cce4bcd8076c3552846cbe7925f3aaffeac0a3b92e"
-dependencies = [
- "lazy_static",
- "libc",
- "log",
- "openssl",
- "openssl-probe",
- "openssl-sys",
- "schannel",
- "security-framework",
- "security-framework-sys",
- "tempfile",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "netlink-packet-core"
 version = "0.4.2"
@@ -5330,50 +5284,12 @@ version = "0.3.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "624a8340c38c1b80fd549087862da4ba43e08858af025b236e509b6649fc13d5"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "openssl"
-version = "0.10.55"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "345df152bc43501c5eb9e4654ff05f794effb78d4efe3d53abc158baddc0703d"
-dependencies = [
- "bitflags",
- "cfg-if",
- "foreign-types",
- "libc",
- "once_cell",
- "openssl-macros",
- "openssl-sys",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "openssl-macros"
-version = "0.1.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "b501e44f11665960c7e7fcf062c7d96a14ade4aa98116c004b2e37b5be7d736c"
-dependencies = [
- "proc-macro2",
- "quote",
- "syn 1.0.109",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "openssl-probe"
 version = "0.1.4"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "28988d872ab76095a6e6ac88d99b54fd267702734fd7ffe610ca27f533ddb95a"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "openssl-sys"
-version = "0.9.90"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "374533b0e45f3a7ced10fcaeccca020e66656bc03dac384f852e4e5a7a8104a6"
-dependencies = [
- "cc",
- "libc",
- "pkg-config",
- "vcpkg",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "orchestra"
 version = "0.0.5"
@@ -9095,12 +9011,10 @@ dependencies = [
  "http-body",
  "hyper",
  "hyper-rustls 0.23.0",
- "hyper-tls",
  "ipnet",
  "js-sys",
  "log",
  "mime",
- "native-tls",
  "once_cell",
  "percent-encoding",
  "pin-project-lite 0.2.9",
@@ -9110,7 +9024,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde_json",
  "serde_urlencoded",
  "tokio",
- "tokio-native-tls",
  "tokio-rustls 0.23.2",
  "tower-service",
  "url",
@@ -12671,16 +12584,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn 2.0.16",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "tokio-native-tls"
-version = "0.3.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "f7d995660bd2b7f8c1568414c1126076c13fbb725c40112dc0120b78eb9b717b"
-dependencies = [
- "native-tls",
- "tokio",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio-retry"
 version = "0.3.0"
diff --git a/polkadot/node/zombienet-backchannel/Cargo.toml b/polkadot/node/zombienet-backchannel/Cargo.toml
index f0959c4b43dc..0b6bf70611eb 100644
--- a/polkadot/node/zombienet-backchannel/Cargo.toml
+++ b/polkadot/node/zombienet-backchannel/Cargo.toml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ tokio-tungstenite = "0.17"
 futures-util = "0.3.23"
 lazy_static = "1.4.0"
 parity-scale-codec = { version = "3.6.1", features = ["derive"] }
-reqwest = "0.11"
+reqwest = { version = "0.11", features = ["rustls-tls"], default-features = false }
 thiserror = "1.0.31"
 gum = { package = "tracing-gum", path = "../gum/" }
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }