diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/release-python.nix b/pkgs/top-level/release-python.nix
index 81ea4d3403a7..bb4ead25066d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/release-python.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/release-python.nix
@@ -12,12 +12,6 @@
   nixpkgsArgs ? { config = {
     allowUnfree = false;
     inHydra = true;
-    permittedInsecurePackages = [
-      # Keep evaluating home-assistant, which is transitively affected
-      # by home-assistant-chip-core consuming OpenSSL 1.1. Affects roughly
-      # 800 jobs.
-      "openssl-1.1.1w"
-    ];
   }; }
 }:
 
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/release.nix b/pkgs/top-level/release.nix
index 04f10bb0fac1..8df22c6ced83 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/release.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/release.nix
@@ -29,14 +29,6 @@
 , nixpkgsArgs ? { config = {
     allowUnfree = false;
     inHydra = true;
-    permittedInsecurePackages = [
-      # *Exceptionally*, those packages will be cached with their *secure* dependents
-      # because they will reach EOL in the middle of the 23.05 release
-      # and it will be too much painful for our users to recompile them
-      # for no real reason.
-      # Remove them for 23.11.
-      "openssl-1.1.1w"
-    ];
   }; }
 
   # This flag, if set to true, will inhibit the use of `mapTestOn`