diff --git a/development.txt b/development.txt
index 24a995026..84be0bed3 100644
--- a/development.txt
+++ b/development.txt
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ pep8	     # https://github.com/jcrocholl/pep8
 pyflakes	 # https://launchpad.net/pyflakes
 coveralls	 # https://coveralls.io/
 ntc_templates # user needs to explicitly install this
-cryptography==3.2
+cryptography
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 78f0169a9..16937fa40 100755
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ ncclient==0.6.15
 scp>=0.7.0
 jinja2>=2.7.1
 PyYAML>=5.1
+paramiko>=3.5.0
 six
 pyserial
 yamlordereddictloader
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 981a023d1..6bf18bed6 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 import versioneer
 import os
 
-# Install customer paramiko
-os.system("pip install git+https://github.com/Juniper/paramiko.git@v3.4.0-JNPR")
 # parse requirements
 req_lines = [line.strip() for line in open("requirements.txt").readlines()]
 install_reqs = list(filter(None, req_lines))