diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 5c9170b7de..7ab9378853 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1432,7 +1432,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "pageserver_api",
  "pageserver_client",
  "pem",
- "pkcs8 0.10.2",
  "postgres_backend",
  "postgres_connection",
  "regex",
@@ -1442,6 +1441,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
  "sha2",
+ "spki 0.7.3",
  "storage_broker",
  "thiserror 1.0.69",
  "tokio",
@@ -8469,7 +8469,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "once_cell",
  "p256 0.13.2",
  "parquet",
- "pkcs8 0.10.2",
  "prettyplease",
  "proc-macro2",
  "prost 0.13.3",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 8fac3bb46c..9d7904a787 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -143,7 +143,6 @@ parquet_derive = "53"
 pbkdf2 = { version = "0.12.1", features = ["simple", "std"] }
 pem = "3.0.3"
 pin-project-lite = "0.2"
-pkcs8 = "0.10.2"
 pprof = { version = "0.14", features = ["criterion", "flamegraph", "frame-pointer", "prost-codec"] }
 procfs = "0.16"
 prometheus = {version = "0.13", default-features=false, features = ["process"]} # removes protobuf dependency
@@ -176,6 +175,7 @@ signal-hook = "0.3"
 smallvec = "1.11"
 smol_str = { version = "0.2.0", features = ["serde"] }
 socket2 = "0.5"
+spki = "0.7.3"
 strum = "0.26"
 strum_macros = "0.26"
 "subtle"  = "2.5.0"
diff --git a/control_plane/Cargo.toml b/control_plane/Cargo.toml
index a0ea216d9c..92f0071bac 100644
--- a/control_plane/Cargo.toml
+++ b/control_plane/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ jsonwebtoken.workspace = true
 nix.workspace = true
 once_cell.workspace = true
 pem.workspace = true
-pkcs8.workspace = true
 humantime-serde.workspace = true
 hyper0.workspace = true
 regex.workspace = true
@@ -25,6 +24,7 @@ scopeguard.workspace = true
 serde.workspace = true
 serde_json.workspace = true
 sha2.workspace = true
+spki.workspace = true
 thiserror.workspace = true
 toml.workspace = true
 toml_edit.workspace = true
diff --git a/control_plane/src/endpoint.rs b/control_plane/src/endpoint.rs
index 0fe6975a6e..b569b0fb8e 100644
--- a/control_plane/src/endpoint.rs
+++ b/control_plane/src/endpoint.rs
@@ -60,11 +60,12 @@ use jsonwebtoken::jwk::{
 use nix::sys::signal::{Signal, kill};
 use pageserver_api::shard::ShardStripeSize;
 use pem::Pem;
-use pkcs8::der::Decode;
 use reqwest::header::CONTENT_TYPE;
 use safekeeper_api::membership::SafekeeperGeneration;
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 use sha2::{Digest, Sha256};
+use spki::der::Decode;
+use spki::{SubjectPublicKeyInfo, SubjectPublicKeyInfoRef};
 use tracing::debug;
 use url::Host;
 use utils::id::{NodeId, TenantId, TimelineId};
@@ -147,11 +148,12 @@ impl ComputeControlPlane {
 
     /// Create a JSON Web Key Set. This ideally matches the way we create a JWKS
     /// from the production control plane.
-    fn create_jwks_from_pem(pem: Pem) -> Result<JwkSet> {
-        let document = pkcs8::Document::from_der(&pem.into_contents())?;
+    fn create_jwks_from_pem(pem: &Pem) -> Result<JwkSet> {
+        let spki: SubjectPublicKeyInfoRef = SubjectPublicKeyInfo::from_der(pem.contents())?;
+        let public_key = spki.subject_public_key.raw_bytes();
 
         let mut hasher = Sha256::new();
-        hasher.update(&document);
+        hasher.update(public_key);
         let key_hash = hasher.finalize();
 
         Ok(JwkSet {
@@ -169,7 +171,7 @@ impl ComputeControlPlane {
                 algorithm: AlgorithmParameters::OctetKeyPair(OctetKeyPairParameters {
                     key_type: OctetKeyPairType::OctetKeyPair,
                     curve: EllipticCurve::Ed25519,
-                    x: base64::encode_config(&document, base64::URL_SAFE_NO_PAD),
+                    x: base64::encode_config(public_key, base64::URL_SAFE_NO_PAD),
                 }),
             }],
         })
@@ -193,7 +195,7 @@ impl ComputeControlPlane {
         let external_http_port = external_http_port.unwrap_or_else(|| self.get_port() + 1);
         let internal_http_port = internal_http_port.unwrap_or_else(|| external_http_port + 1);
         let compute_ctl_config = ComputeCtlConfig {
-            jwks: Self::create_jwks_from_pem(self.env.read_public_key()?)?,
+            jwks: Self::create_jwks_from_pem(&self.env.read_public_key()?)?,
             tls: None::<TlsConfig>,
         };
         let ep = Arc::new(Endpoint {
diff --git a/workspace_hack/Cargo.toml b/workspace_hack/Cargo.toml
index 2c37cebc27..b548a2a88a 100644
--- a/workspace_hack/Cargo.toml
+++ b/workspace_hack/Cargo.toml
@@ -70,7 +70,6 @@ num-traits = { version = "0.2", features = ["i128", "libm"] }
 once_cell = { version = "1" }
 p256 = { version = "0.13", features = ["jwk"] }
 parquet = { version = "53", default-features = false, features = ["zstd"] }
-pkcs8 = { version = "0.10", default-features = false, features = ["pem", "std"] }
 prost = { version = "0.13", features = ["no-recursion-limit", "prost-derive"] }
 rand = { version = "0.8", features = ["small_rng"] }
 regex = { version = "1" }