diff --git a/.travis/requirements-lucid.txt b/.travis/requirements-lucid.txt
index b32e2cb7c..3d73c7d38 100644
--- a/.travis/requirements-lucid.txt
+++ b/.travis/requirements-lucid.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-pyOpenSSL==0.10
+# travis workers uses openssl 1.0 that fails for pyOpenSSL < 0.13
+pyOpenSSL
 lxml==2.2.4
 twisted==10.0.0
 boto==1.9b
diff --git a/.travis/requirements-precise.txt b/.travis/requirements-precise.txt
index eb1fbac9b..5d6ddc1b1 100644
--- a/.travis/requirements-precise.txt
+++ b/.travis/requirements-precise.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-pyOpenSSL==0.12
+# travis workers uses openssl 1.0 that fails for pyOpenSSL < 0.13
+pyOpenSSL
 lxml==2.3.2
 twisted==11.1.0
 boto==2.2.2