diff --git a/deny.toml b/deny.toml
index d37c62e..7eda662 100755
--- a/deny.toml
+++ b/deny.toml
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ confidence-threshold = 0.8
 multiple-versions = "deny"
 wildcards = "warn"
 highlight = "all"
+skip = [
+    # currently ciborium dep from criterion is still dependent on half v1 for some reason. since this is dev dependency, i don't care :-)
+    { name = "half", version = "=1.8.2"}
+]
 
 [sources]
 unknown-registry = "deny"