diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 599292ac84..99cfcb9578 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
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 name = "wyz"
 version = "0.5.1"
@@ -6796,7 +6797,7 @@ checksum = "9ce1b18ccd8e73a9321186f97e46f9f04b778851177567b1975109d26a08d2a6"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
- "syn 2.0.60",
+ "syn 2.0.77",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -6816,7 +6817,7 @@ checksum = "ce36e65b0d2999d2aafac989fb249189a141aee1f53c612c1f37d72631959f69"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
- "syn 2.0.60",
+ "syn 2.0.77",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 4f880a8db9..196606148a 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ bitvec = { version = "1", default-features = false }
 blake2 = { version = "0.10.6", default-features = false }
 clap = { version = "4.5.18", features = ["derive", "cargo"] }
 cfg-if = "1.0.0"
-criterion = "0.4"
+criterion = "0.5.1"
 codec = { package = "parity-scale-codec", version = "3.6.9", default-features = false }
 color-eyre = "0.6.3"
 console_error_panic_hook = "0.1.7"
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ scale-typegen = "0.8.0"
 scale-typegen-description = "0.8.0"
 serde = { version = "1.0.210", default-features = false, features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = { version = "1.0.128", default-features = false }
-syn = { version = "2.0.15", features = ["full", "extra-traits"] }
+syn = { version = "2.0.77", features = ["full", "extra-traits"] }
 thiserror = "1.0.64"
 tokio = { version = "1.40", default-features = false }
 tracing = { version = "0.1.40", default-features = false }
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ trybuild = "1.0.99"
 url = "2.5.2"
 wabt = "0.10.0"
 wasm-bindgen-test = "0.3.24"
-which = "5.0.0"
+which = "6.0.3"
 strip-ansi-escapes = "0.2.0"
 proptest = "1.5.0"
 hex-literal = "0.4.1"
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ tokio-util = "0.7.12"
 # Substrate crates:
 sp-core = { version = "34.0.0", default-features = false }
 sp-crypto-hashing = { version = "0.1.0", default-features = false }
-sp-runtime = "39.0.0"
+sp-runtime = "39.0.1"
 sp-keyring = "39.0.0"
 sp-maybe-compressed-blob = "11.0.0"
 sp-state-machine = "0.43.0"
@@ -163,16 +163,15 @@ bip32 = { version = "0.5.2", default-features = false }
 hmac = { version = "0.12.1", default-features = false }
 pbkdf2 = { version = "0.12.2", default-features = false }
 schnorrkel = { version = "0.11.4", default-features = false }
-secp256k1 = { version = "0.28.2", default-features = false }
-keccak-hash = { version = "0.10.0", default-features = false }
-secrecy = "0.8.0"
+secp256k1 = { version = "0.29.1", default-features = false }
+keccak-hash = { version = "0.11.0", default-features = false }
+secrecy = "0.10.2"
 sha2 = { version = "0.10.8", default-features = false }
 zeroize = { version = "1", default-features = false }
 base64 = { version = "0.22.1", default-features = false }
 scrypt = { version = "0.11.0", default-features = false }
 crypto_secretbox = { version = "0.1.1", default-features = false }
 
-
 [profile.dev.package.smoldot-light]
 opt-level = 2
 [profile.test.package.smoldot-light]
diff --git a/signer/src/crypto/secret_uri.rs b/signer/src/crypto/secret_uri.rs
index dd287d2874..0d93db202e 100644
--- a/signer/src/crypto/secret_uri.rs
+++ b/signer/src/crypto/secret_uri.rs
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 use core::fmt::Display;
 
 use super::DeriveJunction;
-use alloc::vec::Vec;
+use alloc::{string::ToString, vec::Vec};
 use regex::Regex;
 use secrecy::SecretString;
 
@@ -108,10 +108,8 @@ impl core::str::FromStr for SecretUri {
         let password = cap.name("password");
 
         Ok(Self {
-            phrase: SecretString::from_str(phrase).expect("Returns infallible error; qed"),
-            password: password.map(|v| {
-                SecretString::from_str(v.as_str()).expect("Returns infallible error; qed")
-            }),
+            phrase: SecretString::from(phrase.to_string()),
+            password: password.map(|v| SecretString::from(v.as_str().to_string())),
             junctions,
         })
     }
diff --git a/signer/src/ecdsa.rs b/signer/src/ecdsa.rs
index e7c6c657d3..89e128f680 100644
--- a/signer/src/ecdsa.rs
+++ b/signer/src/ecdsa.rs
@@ -69,8 +69,8 @@ impl Keypair {
             let seed = SecretKeyBytes::from_hex(hex_str)?;
             Self::from_secret_key(seed)?
         } else {
-            let phrase = bip39::Mnemonic::from_str(phrase.expose_secret().as_str())?;
-            let pass_str = password.as_ref().map(|p| p.expose_secret().as_str());
+            let phrase = bip39::Mnemonic::from_str(phrase.expose_secret())?;
+            let pass_str = password.as_ref().map(|p| p.expose_secret());
             Self::from_phrase(&phrase, pass_str)?
         };
 
diff --git a/signer/src/sr25519.rs b/signer/src/sr25519.rs
index 6442e3990e..d70e0b1b8f 100644
--- a/signer/src/sr25519.rs
+++ b/signer/src/sr25519.rs
@@ -75,8 +75,8 @@ impl Keypair {
             let seed = SecretKeyBytes::from_hex(hex_str)?;
             Self::from_secret_key(seed)?
         } else {
-            let phrase = bip39::Mnemonic::from_str(phrase.expose_secret().as_str())?;
-            let pass_str = password.as_ref().map(|p| p.expose_secret().as_str());
+            let phrase = bip39::Mnemonic::from_str(phrase.expose_secret())?;
+            let pass_str = password.as_ref().map(|p| p.expose_secret());
             Self::from_phrase(&phrase, pass_str)?
         };