diff --git a/deny.toml b/deny.toml
index 431698495..66ae45bec 100644
--- a/deny.toml
+++ b/deny.toml
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ allow = [
     "BSD-2-Clause",
     "BSD-3-Clause",
     "0BSD",
+    "CC0-1.0",
     "ISC",
     "Unicode-DFS-2016",
     "Unlicense",
@@ -53,15 +54,6 @@ allow = [
 # Allow 1 or more licenses on a per-crate basis, so that particular licenses
 # aren't accepted for every possible crate as with the normal allow list
 exceptions = [
-    # CC0 is a permissive license but somewhat unclear status for source code
-    # so we prefer to not have dependencies using it
-    # https://tldrlegal.com/license/creative-commons-cc0-1.0-universal
-    { allow = ["CC0-1.0"], name = "secp256k1" },
-    { allow = ["CC0-1.0"], name = "secp256k1-sys" },
-    { allow = ["CC0-1.0"], name = "tiny-keccak" },
-    { allow = ["CC0-1.0"], name = "more-asserts" },
-    { allow = ["CC0-1.0"], name = "to_method" },
-    { allow = ["CC0-1.0"], name = "aurora-engine-modexp" },
     # TODO: decide on MPL-2.0 handling
     # These dependencies are grandfathered in in https://github.com/paradigmxyz/reth/pull/6980
     { allow = ["MPL-2.0"], name = "option-ext" },