diff --git a/hbase-endpoint/pom.xml b/hbase-endpoint/pom.xml
index 2e1d9f860b4..e91ea86e7b7 100644
--- a/hbase-endpoint/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-endpoint/pom.xml
@@ -229,12 +229,6 @@
       <artifactId>mockito-core</artifactId>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
-    <!-- Some tests rely on Hadoop's KeyStoreTestUtil, which needs bc. -->
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
-      <artifactId>bcprov-jdk16</artifactId>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
   </dependencies>
   <profiles>
     <!-- Skip the tests in this module -->
diff --git a/hbase-http/pom.xml b/hbase-http/pom.xml
index ca68c508174..87036ac3e99 100644
--- a/hbase-http/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-http/pom.xml
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
-      <artifactId>bcprov-jdk16</artifactId>
+      <artifactId>bcprov-jdk15on</artifactId>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
diff --git a/hbase-server/pom.xml b/hbase-server/pom.xml
index aced8592c59..8df89888ada 100644
--- a/hbase-server/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-server/pom.xml
@@ -537,11 +537,6 @@
       <artifactId>hadoop-minikdc</artifactId>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
-      <artifactId>bcprov-jdk16</artifactId>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.kerby</groupId>
       <artifactId>kerb-client</artifactId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b2f66b528d2..490e562bdf6 100755
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1380,7 +1380,7 @@
     <joni.version>2.1.11</joni.version>
     <jcodings.version>1.0.18</jcodings.version>
     <spy.version>2.12.2</spy.version>
-    <bouncycastle.version>1.46</bouncycastle.version>
+    <bouncycastle.version>1.60</bouncycastle.version>
     <kerby.version>1.0.1</kerby.version>
     <commons-crypto.version>1.0.0</commons-crypto.version>
     <curator.version>4.0.0</curator.version>
@@ -2032,7 +2032,7 @@
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
-        <artifactId>bcprov-jdk16</artifactId>
+        <artifactId>bcprov-jdk15on</artifactId>
         <version>${bouncycastle.version}</version>
         <scope>test</scope>
       </dependency>