diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index ae21d147..8265c919 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -248,9 +248,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "bit-vec"
-version = "0.6.3"
+version = "0.7.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "349f9b6a179ed607305526ca489b34ad0a41aed5f7980fa90eb03160b69598fb"
+checksum = "d2c54ff287cfc0a34f38a6b832ea1bd8e448a330b3e40a50859e6488bee07f22"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "bitflags"
diff --git a/crypto/Cargo.toml b/crypto/Cargo.toml
index 2c46b8a4..9bb65820 100644
--- a/crypto/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crypto/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ description = "Utilities for node addressing and message signing in the aleph-bf
 
 [dependencies]
 async-trait = "0.1"
-bit-vec = "0.6"
+bit-vec = "0.7"
 codec = { package = "parity-scale-codec", version = "3.0", default-features = false, features = ["derive"] }
 derive_more = "0.99"
 log = "0.4"