diff --git a/services/identity/Cargo.toml b/services/identity/Cargo.toml
index 26329b7cd..d513a01b1 100644
--- a/services/identity/Cargo.toml
+++ b/services/identity/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,47 +1,47 @@
 [package]
 name = "identity"
 version = "0.1.0"
 edition.workspace = true
 license.workspace = true
 homepage.workspace = true
 
 [dependencies]
 tonic = "0.9.1"
 prost = { workspace = true }
 futures-util = { workspace = true }
 tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["macros", "rt-multi-thread"] }
 ed25519-dalek = { workspace = true }
 clap = { workspace = true, features = ["derive", "env"] }
 derive_more = { workspace = true }
 comm-lib = { path = "../../shared/comm-lib", features = [
   "aws",
   "grpc_clients",
 ] }
 tracing = { workspace = true }
 tracing-subscriber = { workspace = true, features = ["env-filter", "json"] }
 chrono = { workspace = true }
 rand = "0.8"
 constant_time_eq = "0.2.2"
 siwe = { workspace = true }
 comm-opaque2 = { path = "../../shared/comm-opaque2" }
 grpc_clients = { path = "../../shared/grpc_clients" }
 hyper = { workspace = true }
 hyper-tungstenite = { workspace = true }
 once_cell = { workspace = true }
 hex = { workspace = true }
 tonic-web = { workspace = true }
 serde = { workspace = true, features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = { workspace = true }
 tunnelbroker_messages = { path = "../../shared/tunnelbroker_messages" }
 identity_search_messages = { path = "../../shared/identity_search_messages" }
 uuid = { workspace = true, features = ["v4"] }
 base64 = { workspace = true }
 regex = { workspace = true }
 tower-http = { workspace = true, features = ["cors"] }
 http = { workspace = true }
-reqwest = { workspace = true, features = ["json"] }
+reqwest = { workspace = true, features = ["json", "rustls-tls"] }
 futures = { workspace = true }
 url = { workspace = true }
 
 [build-dependencies]
 tonic-build = "0.9.1"