diff --git a/truss-transfer/Cargo.toml b/truss-transfer/Cargo.toml
index e57252e1c..410a4e860 100644
--- a/truss-transfer/Cargo.toml
+++ b/truss-transfer/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,8 +17,9 @@ serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_yaml = "0.9"
 tokio = { version = "1.24", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "macros", "fs"] }
 
-reqwest = { version = "0.12.12", default-features = false, optional = false, features = ["blocking", "stream", "http2", "default-tls"] }
-openssl = { version = "0.10", features = ["vendored"], optional = false }
+reqwest = { version = "0.12.12", default-features = false, features = ["blocking", "stream", "http2", "default-tls"] }
+# static linking of openssl, as rustls-tls is failing to build on aaarch64
+openssl = { version = "0.10", features = ["vendored"] }
 
 [features]
 cli = []
diff --git a/truss-transfer/src/lib.rs b/truss-transfer/src/lib.rs
index 1212e907c..677fe8beb 100644
--- a/truss-transfer/src/lib.rs
+++ b/truss-transfer/src/lib.rs
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ use tokio::sync::Semaphore;
 // Constants
 static LAZY_DATA_RESOLVER_PATH: &str = "/bptr/bptr-manifest";
 static CACHE_DIR: &str = "/cache/org/artifacts";
-static BLOB_DOWNLOAD_TIMEOUT_SECS: u64 = 7200;
+static BLOB_DOWNLOAD_TIMEOUT_SECS: u64 = 21600; // 6 hours
 static BASETEN_FS_ENABLED_ENV_VAR: &str = "BASETEN_FS_ENABLED";
 static TRUSS_TRANSFER_NUM_WORKERS_DEFAULT: usize = 64;
 static TRUSS_TRANSFER_DOWNLOAD_DIR_ENV_VAR: &str = "TRUSS_TRANSFER_DOWNLOAD_DIR";