diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e8945b67..f7fb6395 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -22,10 +22,7 @@ maintainers = [
 ]
 urls = {homepage = "https://contentauthenticity.org", repository = "https://github.com/contentauth/c2pa-python"}
 dependencies = [
-    "wheel>=0.41.2",
-    "setuptools>=68.0.0",
     "toml>=0.10.2",
-    "pytest>=7.4.0",
     "cryptography>=41.0.0",
     "requests>=2.0.0"
 ]