diff --git a/transports/websocket/Cargo.toml b/transports/websocket/Cargo.toml
index dde04af187c..af8a44507bb 100644
--- a/transports/websocket/Cargo.toml
+++ b/transports/websocket/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,17 +10,15 @@ keywords = ["peer-to-peer", "libp2p", "networking"]
 categories = ["network-programming", "asynchronous"]
 
 [dependencies]
-async-tls = "0.11.0"
+futures-rustls = "0.21"
 either = "1.5.3"
 futures = "0.3.1"
 libp2p-core = { version = "0.27.0", path = "../../core" }
 log = "0.4.8"
 quicksink = "0.1"
-rustls = "0.19.0"
 rw-stream-sink = "0.2.0"
 soketto = { version = "0.4.1", features = ["deflate"] }
 url = "2.1"
-webpki = "0.21"
 webpki-roots = "0.21"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
diff --git a/transports/websocket/src/framed.rs b/transports/websocket/src/framed.rs
index 718f7f95c5a..d5bd63b82c6 100644
--- a/transports/websocket/src/framed.rs
+++ b/transports/websocket/src/framed.rs
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 // FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
 // DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
 
-use async_tls::{client, server};
+use futures_rustls::{webpki, client, server};
 use crate::{error::Error, tls};
 use either::Either;
 use futures::{future::BoxFuture, prelude::*, ready, stream::BoxStream};
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ where
             if use_tls { // begin TLS session
                 let dns_name = dns_name.expect("for use_tls we have checked that dns_name is some");
                 trace!("starting TLS handshake with {}", address);
-                let stream = self.tls_config.client.connect(&dns_name, stream)
+                let stream = self.tls_config.client.connect(dns_name.as_ref(), stream)
                     .map_err(|e| {
                         debug!("TLS handshake with {} failed: {}", address, e);
                         Error::Tls(tls::Error::from(e))
diff --git a/transports/websocket/src/tls.rs b/transports/websocket/src/tls.rs
index 7ffdd057a38..3c224f1eca6 100644
--- a/transports/websocket/src/tls.rs
+++ b/transports/websocket/src/tls.rs
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 // FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
 // DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
 
-use async_tls::{TlsConnector, TlsAcceptor};
+use futures_rustls::{rustls, webpki, TlsConnector, TlsAcceptor};
 use std::{fmt, io, sync::Arc};
 
 /// TLS configuration.