diff --git a/contrib/make_packages b/contrib/make_packages
index 0548047d..a646c11b 100755
--- a/contrib/make_packages
+++ b/contrib/make_packages
@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
         'ecdsa',
         'pbkdf2',
         'requests', # note: requests-2.5.1 is needed to build with pyinstaller
-        'pyasn1',
-        'pyasn1_modules',
         'qrcode',
         'google/protobuf',
         'tlslite',
diff --git a/electrum b/electrum
index 15740920..45f5faff 100755
--- a/electrum
+++ b/electrum
@@ -47,8 +47,6 @@ try:
     import requests
     import six
     import qrcode
-    import pyasn1
-    import pyasn1_modules
     import tlslite
     import pbkdf2
     import google.protobuf
@@ -56,10 +54,6 @@ except ImportError as e:
     sys.exit("Error: %s. Try 'sudo pip install <module-name>'"%e.message)
 
 # the following imports are for pyinstaller
-import pyasn1.codec
-import pyasn1.codec.der
-from pyasn1.codec.der import encoder, decoder
-from pyasn1_modules import rfc2459
 from google.protobuf import descriptor
 from google.protobuf import message
 from google.protobuf import reflection
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c5526217..1eb88dca 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -33,8 +33,6 @@ setup(
         'ecdsa>=0.9',
         'pbkdf2',
         'requests',
-        'pyasn1-modules',
-        'pyasn1',
         'qrcode',
         'protobuf',
         'tlslite',