diff --git a/s3/Cargo.toml b/s3/Cargo.toml
index 41b8f99577..1862bd066f 100644
--- a/s3/Cargo.toml
+++ b/s3/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "rust-s3"
-version = "0.26.0"
+version = "0.26.1"
 authors = ["Drazen Urch"]
 description = "Tiny Rust library for working with Amazon S3 and compatible object storage APIs"
 repository = "https://github.com/durch/rust-s3"
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ md5 = "0.7"
 url = "2"
 futures = "0.3"
 tokio = {version="0.2", features=["macros", "io-util", "stream"]}
-rand = "0.7"
 simpl = "0.1.0"
 aws-region = "0.22"
 aws-creds = { version="0.24.1", default-features = false }
diff --git a/s3/bin/simple_crud.rs b/s3/bin/simple_crud.rs
index 95b43f2f78..12c536df93 100644
--- a/s3/bin/simple_crud.rs
+++ b/s3/bin/simple_crud.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-extern crate rand;
 extern crate s3;
 
 use std::str;
@@ -105,7 +104,7 @@ pub fn main() -> Result<(), S3Error> {
 
         // Test with random byte array
 
-        let random_bytes: Vec<u8> = (0..3072).map(|_| rand::random::<u8>()).collect();
+        let random_bytes: Vec<u8> = (0..3072).map(|_| 33).collect();
         let (_, code) = bucket.put_object_blocking("random.bin", random_bytes.as_slice())?;
         assert_eq!(200, code);
         let (data, code) = bucket.get_object_blocking("random.bin")?;