diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 5523b82..bc92a0d 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-sudo: false
+sudo: travis
 language: python
 python: 3.5
 env:
diff --git a/bin/gen-standalone.sh b/bin/gen-standalone.sh
index 7f92b54..9f0d886 100755
--- a/bin/gen-standalone.sh
+++ b/bin/gen-standalone.sh
@@ -22,14 +22,12 @@ wheel="./dist/pypiserver-*.whl"
 #   prepend it with a python-flashbang + some header-comments >= 10-lines
 #   so that ``head pypiserver*.py``behaves politely.
 #
+sudo update-ca-certificates
 unzip -jo $wheel pypiserver/__main__.py -d ./dist
 zip -d $wheel pypiserver/__main__.py
 zip -mj $wheel ./dist/__main__.py
-
-wget --no-check-certificate \
-        https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/p/passlib/passlib-1.6.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl#md5=03de8f28697eaa67835758a60386c9fa \
+wget https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/p/passlib/passlib-1.6.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl#md5=03de8f28697eaa67835758a60386c9fa \
         -O ./dist/passlib-1.6.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl
-
 zip -mj $wheel ./dist/passlib-*.whl
 gitversion=$(git describe --tags)
 cat  - $wheel > "$exec_zip" << EOF