diff --git a/fog.gemspec b/fog.gemspec
index 96b0793b7..d20713c61 100644
--- a/fog.gemspec
+++ b/fog.gemspec
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.add_dependency('formatador', '~>0.2.0')
   s.add_dependency('multi_json', '~>1.0')
   s.add_dependency('mime-types')
-  s.add_dependency('net-scp', '~>1.0.4')
+  s.add_dependency('net-scp', '~>1.1')
   s.add_dependency('net-ssh', '>=2.1.3')
   s.add_dependency('nokogiri', '~>1.5.0')
   s.add_dependency('ruby-hmac')