diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index a236c0c11..e05fe1da0 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ oslo.utils>=3.5.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.log>=1.14.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.serialization>=1.10.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.service>=1.0.0 # Apache-2.0
-paramiko>=1.16.0 # LGPL
+paramiko>=2.0 # LGPL
 pbr>=1.6 # Apache-2.0
 pecan>=1.0.0 # BSD
 python-barbicanclient>=4.0.0 # Apache-2.0