diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 0e2649d..01edfc2 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ lazy_static = "1.4.0"
 memory-pager = "0.9.0"
 merkle-tree-stream =  "0.12.0"
 pretty-hash = "0.4.1"
-rand = "0.7.3"
+rand = "0.8.3"
 random-access-disk = "2.0.0"
 random-access-memory = "2.0.0"
 random-access-storage = "4.0.0"