diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index bc871183a..3b2d8ac2e 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -1,32 +1,30 @@
 Source: swh-web-ui
 Maintainer: Software Heritage developers <swh-devel@inria.fr>
 Section: python
 Priority: optional
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9),
                dh-python,
-               libjs-cryptojs,
                python3-all,
                python3-blinker,
                python3-docutils,
                python3-flask-limiter,
                python3-flask-testing,
                python3-hiredis,
                python3-nose,
                python3-pygments,
                python3-redis,
                python3-setuptools,
                python3-swh.core (>= 0.0.20~),
                python3-swh.storage (>= 0.0.77~),
                python3-vcversioner,
                python3-yaml
 Standards-Version: 3.9.6
 Homepage: https://forge.softwareheritage.org/diffusion/DWUI/
 
 Package: python3-swh.web.ui
 Architecture: all
-Depends: libjs-cryptojs,
-         python3-swh.core (>= 0.0.20~),
+Depends: python3-swh.core (>= 0.0.20~),
          python3-swh.storage (>= 0.0.77~),
          ${misc:Depends},
          ${python3:Depends}
 Description: Software Heritage Web UI
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index eca158795..ab6663619 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,21 +1,18 @@
 # Add here external Python modules dependencies, one per line. Module names
 # should match https://pypi.python.org/pypi names. For the full spec or
 # dependency lines, see https://pip.readthedocs.org/en/1.1/requirements.html
 
 # Runtime dependencies
 Flask
 Flask_Limiter
 swh.core >= 0.0.20
 swh.storage >= 0.0.77
 dateutil
 docutils
 pygments
 redis
 hiredis
 
 # Test dependencies
 #Flask-Testing
 #blinker
-
-# Non-Python dependencies
-#libjs-cryptojs
diff --git a/swh/web/ui/static/lib/README b/swh/web/ui/static/lib/README
deleted file mode 100644
index 0b80440c8..000000000
--- a/swh/web/ui/static/lib/README
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-This is included in lib folder to force static/lib/ folder inclusion.
-Apparently, only symlinks is not sufficient.
diff --git a/swh/web/ui/static/lib/core.js b/swh/web/ui/static/lib/core.js
deleted file mode 120000
index ca7c2da05..000000000
--- a/swh/web/ui/static/lib/core.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-/usr/share/javascript/cryptojs/core.js
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/swh/web/ui/static/lib/lib-typedarrays.js b/swh/web/ui/static/lib/lib-typedarrays.js
deleted file mode 120000
index 7ebc5d218..000000000
--- a/swh/web/ui/static/lib/lib-typedarrays.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-/usr/share/javascript/cryptojs/lib-typedarrays.js
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/swh/web/ui/static/lib/sha1.js b/swh/web/ui/static/lib/sha1.js
deleted file mode 120000
index 76053edf4..000000000
--- a/swh/web/ui/static/lib/sha1.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-/usr/share/javascript/cryptojs/sha1.js
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/swh/web/ui/static/lib/sha256.js b/swh/web/ui/static/lib/sha256.js
deleted file mode 120000
index 6dcdf63fd..000000000
--- a/swh/web/ui/static/lib/sha256.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-/usr/share/javascript/cryptojs/sha256.js
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/swh/web/ui/templates/includes/search-form.html b/swh/web/ui/templates/includes/search-form.html
index e69d6ec70..92b0d5c5e 100644
--- a/swh/web/ui/templates/includes/search-form.html
+++ b/swh/web/ui/templates/includes/search-form.html
@@ -1,74 +1,75 @@
 <!-- The text-based SHA1 or SHA256 search -->
 <label for="text-hash-form">Search with SHA-1 or SHA-256:</label>
 <form id="text-hash-form"
       action="{{ url_for('search_content') }}"
       class="form"
       method="get">
   <br/>
   <div class="input-group">
     <input id="text-hash-input"
            type="text" class="form-control"
            name="q"
            placeholder="SHA-1 or SHA-256 checksum" />
     <span class="input-group-btn">
       <button id="text-hash-submit"
               class="btn btn-primary"
               type="submit">
         Text search
       </button>
     </span>
   </div>
 </form>
 <br/>
 
 <!-- The file-based drag&drop UI-->
 <label for="file-hash-form">Search with files</label>
 <form id="file-hash-form"
       action="{{ url_for('search_content') }}"
       class="text-center form"
       method="post"
       enctype="multipart/form-data">
 
   <br/>
   <!--Form input -->
   <input type="file"
          id="file-hash-input"
          class="form-control"
          multiple
          name="filename"
          value=""
          style="display:none"
          placeholder="File(s) to hash and search" />
   <div id="file-drop" class="text-center" style="border: 1px dashed black">
     Drag and drop or click here to hash files and search for them.
     Your files will NOT be uploaded, hashing is done locally.
     Filesizes over 20Mb may be slow to process, use with care.
     <div id="filelist" class="row"></div>
   </div>
 
   <!-- Form buttons -->
   <div class="btn-group" style="margin-top: 10px">
     <button id="file-hash-submission" type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">
       <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-search" type="submit" aria-hidden="true"></span>
       Search
     </button>
     <button id="file-hash-clear" class="btn btn-primary">
       Clear
       <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-erase" aria-hidden="true"></span>
     </button>
   </div>
 </form>
 
 <br />
 
 <!-- Required JS -->
-{% for fname in ['lib/core.js', 'lib/lib-typedarrays.js', 'lib/sha1.js', 'lib/sha256.js', 'js/search.js'] %}
-<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="{{ url_for('static', filename=fname) }}"></script>
-{% endfor %}
-
+<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/crypto-js/3.1.2/components/core-min.js"></script>
+<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/crypto-js/3.1.2/components/lib-typedarrays-min.js"></script>
+<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/crypto-js/3.1.2/components/sha1-min.js"></script>
+<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/crypto-js/3.1.2/components/sha256-min.js"></script>
+<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="{{ url_for('static', filename='js/search.js') }}"></script>
 <!-- Script setup -->
 <script>
   var sfc = new SearchFormController($('#text-hash-form'), $('#file-hash-form'), $('#search-message'));
   sfc.setupTextForm($('#text-hash-input'));
   sfc.setupFileForm($('#file-drop'),$('#filelist'),$('#file-hash-input'),$('#file-hash-clear'));
 </script>