diff --git a/federation/entities/activitypub/django/views.py b/federation/entities/activitypub/django/views.py
index 19ec6b5..93f53c1 100644
--- a/federation/entities/activitypub/django/views.py
+++ b/federation/entities/activitypub/django/views.py
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 from cryptography.exceptions import InvalidSignature
 from django.http import JsonResponse, HttpResponse, HttpResponseNotFound
-from requests_http_signature import HTTPSignatureHeaderAuth
 
 from federation.entities.activitypub.mappers import get_outbound_entity
 from federation.protocols.activitypub.signing import verify_request_signature
@@ -24,15 +23,10 @@ def get_and_verify_signer(request):
             body=request.body,
             method=request.method,
             headers=request.headers)
-    sig = HTTPSignatureHeaderAuth.get_sig_struct(req)
-    signer = sig.get('keyId', '').split('#')[0]
-    key = get_public_key(signer)
-    if key:
-        try:
-            verify_request_signature(req, key)
-            return signer
-        except InvalidSignature:
-            return None
+    try:
+        return verify_request_signature(req, required=False)
+    except ValueError:
+        return None
 
 
 def activitypub_object_view(func):
diff --git a/federation/entities/activitypub/models.py b/federation/entities/activitypub/models.py
index dffc493..f891678 100644
--- a/federation/entities/activitypub/models.py
+++ b/federation/entities/activitypub/models.py
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ OBJECTS = [
 
 
 def set_public(entity):
-    for attr in [getattr(entity, 'to', []), getattr(entity, 'cc' ,[])]:
+    for attr in [entity.to, entity.cc]:
         if isinstance(attr, list):
             if NAMESPACE_PUBLIC in attr: entity.public = True
         elif attr == NAMESPACE_PUBLIC: entity.public = True
@@ -1318,8 +1318,8 @@ def extract_replies(replies):
     visited = []
 
     def walk_reply_collection(replies):
-        items = getattr(replies, 'items', [])
-        if items and not isinstance(items, list): items = [items]
+        items = replies.items if replies.items is not missing else []
+        if not isinstance(items, list): items = [items]
         for obj in items:
             if isinstance(obj, Note):
                 try:
@@ -1330,7 +1330,7 @@ def extract_replies(replies):
                     continue
             elif not isinstance(obj, str): continue
             objs.append(obj)
-        if getattr(replies, 'next_', None):
+        if replies.next_ is not missing:
             if (replies.id != replies.next_) and (replies.next_ not in visited):
                 resp = retrieve_and_parse_document(replies.next_)
                 if resp:
diff --git a/federation/protocols/activitypub/protocol.py b/federation/protocols/activitypub/protocol.py
index 84f695b..a6066bb 100644
--- a/federation/protocols/activitypub/protocol.py
+++ b/federation/protocols/activitypub/protocol.py
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ from typing import Callable, Tuple, Union, Dict
 
 from cryptography.exceptions import InvalidSignature
 from Crypto.PublicKey.RSA import RsaKey
-from requests_http_signature import HTTPSignatureHeaderAuth
 
 from federation.entities.activitypub.enums import ActorType
 from federation.entities.mixins import BaseEntity
@@ -88,16 +87,11 @@ class Protocol:
         if not skip_author_verification:
             try:
                 self.verify_signature()
-            except (KeyError, InvalidSignature) as exc:
+            except (ValueError, KeyError, InvalidSignature) as exc:
                 logger.warning(f'Signature verification failed: {exc}')
                 return self.actor, {}
         return self.actor, self.payload
 
     def verify_signature(self):
         # Verify the HTTP signature
-        sig = HTTPSignatureHeaderAuth.get_sig_struct(self.request)
-        signer = sig.get('keyId', '').split('#')[0] if sig.get('keyId') else self.actor
-        key = self.get_contact_key(signer)
-        if self.request.headers.get('Signature') and not key:
-            raise KeyError(f'No public key found for {signer}')
-        verify_request_signature(self.request, key)
+        verify_request_signature(self.request)
diff --git a/federation/protocols/activitypub/signing.py b/federation/protocols/activitypub/signing.py
index c569cf2..9620c9c 100644
--- a/federation/protocols/activitypub/signing.py
+++ b/federation/protocols/activitypub/signing.py
@@ -6,10 +6,14 @@ https://funkwhale.audio/
 import datetime
 import logging
 from typing import Union
+from urllib.parse import urlsplit
 
 import pytz
 from Crypto.PublicKey.RSA import RsaKey
-from requests_http_signature import HTTPSignatureHeaderAuth
+from httpsig.sign_algorithms import PSS
+from httpsig.requests_auth import HTTPSignatureAuth
+from httpsig.verify import HeaderVerifier
+
 
 from federation.types import RequestType
 from federation.utils.network import parse_http_date
@@ -18,24 +22,46 @@ from federation.utils.text import encode_if_text
 logger = logging.getLogger("federation")
 
 
-def get_http_authentication(private_key: RsaKey, private_key_id: str) -> HTTPSignatureHeaderAuth:
+def get_http_authentication(private_key: RsaKey, private_key_id: str, digest: bool=True) -> HTTPSignatureAuth:
     """
     Get HTTP signature authentication for a request.
     """
     key = private_key.exportKey()
-    return HTTPSignatureHeaderAuth(
-        headers=["(request-target)", "user-agent", "host", "date"],
+    headers = ["(request-target)", "user-agent", "host", "date"]
+    if digest: headers.append('digest')
+    return HTTPSignatureAuth(
+        headers=headers,
         algorithm="rsa-sha256",
-        key=key,
+        secret=key,
         key_id=private_key_id,
     )
 
 
-def verify_request_signature(request: RequestType, public_key: Union[str, bytes]):
+def verify_request_signature(request: RequestType, required: bool=True):
     """
     Verify HTTP signature in request against a public key.
     """
-    key = encode_if_text(public_key)
+    from federation.utils.activitypub import retrieve_and_parse_document
+    
+    sig_struct = request.headers.get("Signature", None)
+    if not sig_struct:
+        if required:
+            raise ValueError("A signature is required but was not provided")
+        else:
+            return None
+
+    # this should return a dict populated with the following keys:
+    # keyId, algorithm, headers and signature
+    sig = {i.split("=", 1)[0]: i.split("=", 1)[1].strip('"') for i in sig_struct.split(",")}
+    signer = retrieve_and_parse_document(sig.get('keyId'))
+    if not signer:
+        raise ValueError(f"Failed to retrieve keyId for {sig.get('keyId')}")
+
+    if not getattr(signer, 'public_key_dict', None):
+        raise ValueError(f"Failed to retrieve public key for {sig.get('keyId')}")
+
+    key = encode_if_text(signer.public_key_dict['publicKeyPem'])
+
     date_header = request.headers.get("Date")
     if not date_header:
         raise ValueError("Request Date header is missing")
@@ -48,4 +74,10 @@ def verify_request_signature(request: RequestType, public_key: Union[str, bytes]
     if dt < now - past_delta or dt > now + future_delta:
         raise ValueError("Request Date is too far in future or past")
 
-    HTTPSignatureHeaderAuth.verify(request, key_resolver=lambda **kwargs: key)
+    path = getattr(request, 'path', urlsplit(request.url).path)
+    if not HeaderVerifier(request.headers, key, method=request.method,
+            path=path, sign_header='signature',
+            sign_algorithm=PSS() if sig.get('algorithm',None) == 'hs2019' else None).verify():
+        raise ValueError("Invalid signature")
+
+    return signer.id
diff --git a/federation/tests/protocols/activitypub/test_signing.py b/federation/tests/protocols/activitypub/test_signing.py
index a3b64a0..c4a4255 100644
--- a/federation/tests/protocols/activitypub/test_signing.py
+++ b/federation/tests/protocols/activitypub/test_signing.py
@@ -5,13 +5,13 @@ from federation.tests.fixtures.keys import get_dummy_private_key
 def test_signing_request():
     key = get_dummy_private_key()
     auth = get_http_authentication(key, "dummy_key_id")
-    assert auth.algorithm == 'rsa-sha256'
-    assert auth.headers == [
+    assert auth.header_signer.headers == [
         '(request-target)',
         'user-agent',
         'host',
         'date',
+        'digest',
     ]
-    assert auth.key == key.exportKey()
-    assert auth.key_id == 'dummy_key_id'
+    assert auth.header_signer.secret == key.exportKey()
+    assert 'dummy_key_id' in auth.header_signer.signature_template
 
diff --git a/federation/utils/activitypub.py b/federation/utils/activitypub.py
index 114cce0..8ea1e3c 100644
--- a/federation/utils/activitypub.py
+++ b/federation/utils/activitypub.py
@@ -3,17 +3,15 @@ import logging
 from typing import Optional, Any
 
 from federation.protocols.activitypub.signing import get_http_authentication
+from federation.utils.django import get_federation_user
 from federation.utils.network import fetch_document, try_retrieve_webfinger_document
 from federation.utils.text import decode_if_bytes, validate_handle
 
 logger = logging.getLogger('federation')
 
-try:
-    from federation.utils.django import get_federation_user
-    federation_user = get_federation_user()
-except (ImportError, AttributeError):
-    federation_user = None
-    logger.warning("django is required for get requests signing")
+federation_user = get_federation_user()
+if not federation_user: logger.warning("django is required for get requests signing")
+
 
 def get_profile_id_from_webfinger(handle: str) -> Optional[str]:
     """
@@ -43,7 +41,7 @@ def retrieve_and_parse_document(fid: str, cache: bool=True) -> Optional[Any]:
     """
     from federation.entities.activitypub.models import element_to_objects # Circulars
     document, status_code, ex = fetch_document(fid, extra_headers={'accept': 'application/activity+json'}, cache=cache,
-            auth=get_http_authentication(federation_user.rsa_private_key,f'{federation_user.id}#main-key') if federation_user else None)
+            auth=get_http_authentication(federation_user.rsa_private_key,f'{federation_user.id}#main-key', digest=False) if federation_user else None)
     if document:
         try:
             document = json.loads(decode_if_bytes(document))
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index cefc9de..85084dd 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ setup(
         "bleach>3.0",
         "calamus",
         "commonmark",
-        "cryptography<=3.4.7",
+        "cryptography",
         "cssselect>=0.9.2",
         "dirty-validators>=0.3.0",
         "lxml>=3.4.0",
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ setup(
         "redis",
         "requests>=2.8.0",
         "requests-cache",
-        "requests-http-signature-jaywink>=0.1.0.dev0",
+        "httpsig @ git+https://github.com/tripougnif/python-httpsig-socialhome.git@ce03fa7b25acfacc14fba2670c33246025db7be0#egg=httpsig==0.1",
     ],
     include_package_data=True,
     classifiers=[