diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index fcbcbc9..adf77c8 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 cryptography>=1.8.1
 http-ece>=1.0.1
-requests>=2.13.0
+requests>=2.12.0
 py-vapid>=1.3.0