diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index c10e77731..767fda5dd 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -3894,11 +3894,9 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
  "sha2",
- "sha3",
  "snow",
  "socket2 0.5.8",
  "static_dir",
- "thiserror 1.0.69",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-tungstenite 0.21.0",
  "unicode-segmentation",
diff --git a/kinode/Cargo.toml b/kinode/Cargo.toml
index ad7219ed1..e4862534a 100644
--- a/kinode/Cargo.toml
+++ b/kinode/Cargo.toml
@@ -73,13 +73,11 @@ rusqlite = { version = "0.31.0", features = ["bundled"] }
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0"
 sha2 = "0.10.8"
-sha3 = "0.10.8"
 # snow = { version = "0.9.5", features = ["ring-resolver"] }
 # unfortunately need to use forked version for async use and in-place encryption
 snow = { git = "https://github.com/dr-frmr/snow", branch = "dr/extract_cipherstates", features = ["ring-resolver"] }
 socket2 = "0.5.7"
 static_dir = "0.2.0"
-thiserror = "1.0"
 tokio = { version = "1.28", features = ["fs", "macros", "rt-multi-thread", "signal", "sync", "time"] }
 tokio-tungstenite = { version = "0.21.0", features = ["native-tls"] }
 unicode-segmentation = "1.11"