diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 2dac5bba6..ef64cec47 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ First install some libraries from your package manager:
 	brew install libffi libyaml
 	sudo easy_install pip
 
+	# note: on OSX El Capitan, Apple stopped shipping the OpenSSL headers
+	# the command below is a workaround to install the Cryptography package
+	env LDFLAGS="-L$(brew --prefix openssl)/lib" CFLAGS="-I$(brew --prefix openssl)/include" pip install cryptography
+
 Then install `sops` from pip::
 
 	sudo pip install --upgrade sops
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 9953422ed..ab7353ab5 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ boto3>=1.1.3
 ruamel.yaml>=0.10.7
 ordereddict>=1.1
 simplejson>=3.8
+futures>=2.2.0