diff --git a/litellm-rust/Cargo.lock b/litellm-rust/Cargo.lock
index 15fe18966f3..8e77517f7c0 100644
--- a/litellm-rust/Cargo.lock
+++ b/litellm-rust/Cargo.lock
@@ -4433,6 +4433,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "litellm-redis-client",
  "litellm-redis-testing",
  "rstest",
+ "rustls 0.23.42",
  "serde_json",
  "thiserror 2.0.19",
  "tokio",
diff --git a/litellm-rust/crates/redis-connect/Cargo.toml b/litellm-rust/crates/redis-connect/Cargo.toml
index 3ec43928b0c..4300c9ea088 100644
--- a/litellm-rust/crates/redis-connect/Cargo.toml
+++ b/litellm-rust/crates/redis-connect/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ tracing.workspace = true
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 litellm-redis-testing.workspace = true
+rustls.workspace = true
 serde_json.workspace = true
 rstest.workspace = true
 tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["macros", "rt-multi-thread"] }
diff --git a/litellm-rust/crates/redis-connect/tests/connect.rs b/litellm-rust/crates/redis-connect/tests/connect.rs
index 739dfb62b97..3fe910f5bcb 100644
--- a/litellm-rust/crates/redis-connect/tests/connect.rs
+++ b/litellm-rust/crates/redis-connect/tests/connect.rs
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ fn port(url: &str) -> u16 {
 #[case::system_roots_only(false, false)]
 #[tokio::test]
 async fn python_tls_kwargs_reach_the_server(#[case] with_ca: bool, #[case] connects: bool) {
+    if rustls::crypto::CryptoProvider::get_default().is_none() {
+        let _ = rustls::crypto::ring::default_provider().install_default();
+    }
     let server = RedisTlsServer::start(false).await.unwrap();
     let kwargs = serde_json::json!({
         "host": server.host(),