diff --git a/docs/installation.rst b/docs/installation.rst
index f37609534..6475eef42 100644
--- a/docs/installation.rst
+++ b/docs/installation.rst
@@ -162,10 +162,10 @@ following dependencies first. For the libraries you will also need their
 development header files (sometimes in a separate `-dev` or `-devel` package).
 
 * `Python 3`_ >= 3.10.0
-* OpenSSL_ >= 1.1.1 (LibreSSL will not work)
+* OpenSSL_ >= 3.2.0 (LibreSSL will not work)
 * libacl_ (which depends on libattr_)
 * liblz4_ >= 1.7.0 (r129)
-* libffi (required for argon2-cffi-bindings)
+
 * pkg-config (cli tool) - Borg uses this to discover header and library
   locations automatically. Alternatively, you can also point to them via some
   environment variables, see setup.py.
diff --git a/docs/internals/security.rst b/docs/internals/security.rst
index f5bb5ef08..61a4cdd80 100644
--- a/docs/internals/security.rst
+++ b/docs/internals/security.rst
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ on widely used libraries providing them:
   primitives implemented in libcrypto.
 - SHA-256, SHA-512 and BLAKE2b from Python's hashlib_ standard library module are used.
 - HMAC and a constant-time comparison from Python's hmac_ standard library module are used.
-- argon2 is used via argon2-cffi.
+- argon2 is used from OpenSSL (>= 3.2).
 
 .. _Horton principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horton_Principle
 .. _length extension: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_extension_attack
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index de1f852d5..0960505a9 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ dependencies = [
   "packaging",
   "platformdirs >=3.0.0, <5.0.0; sys_platform == 'darwin'",  # for macOS: breaking changes in 3.0.0.
   "platformdirs >=2.6.0, <5.0.0; sys_platform != 'darwin'",  # for others: 2.6+ works consistently.
-  "argon2-cffi",
   "shtab>=1.8.0",
   "backports-zstd; python_version < '3.14'", # for python < 3.14.
   "xxhash>=2.0.0",
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 07b763515..976ea227d 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ if not on_rtd:
         )
 
     if is_win32:
-        crypto_ext_lib = lib_ext_kwargs(pc, "BORG_OPENSSL_PREFIX", "libcrypto", "libcrypto", ">=1.1.1", lib_subdir="")
+        crypto_ext_lib = lib_ext_kwargs(pc, "BORG_OPENSSL_PREFIX", "libcrypto", "libcrypto", ">=3.2.0", lib_subdir="")
     elif is_openbsd:
         # Use OpenSSL (not LibreSSL) because we need AES-OCB via the EVP API. Link
         # it statically to avoid conflicting with shared libcrypto from the base
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ if not on_rtd:
             extra_objects=[os.path.join(openssl_prefix, "lib", openssl_name, "libcrypto.a")],
         )
     else:
-        crypto_ext_lib = lib_ext_kwargs(pc, "BORG_OPENSSL_PREFIX", "crypto", "libcrypto", ">=1.1.1")
+        crypto_ext_lib = lib_ext_kwargs(pc, "BORG_OPENSSL_PREFIX", "crypto", "libcrypto", ">=3.2.0")
 
     crypto_ext_kwargs = members_appended(
         dict(sources=[crypto_ll_source]), crypto_ext_lib, dict(extra_compile_args=cflags)
diff --git a/src/borg/crypto/key.py b/src/borg/crypto/key.py
index 30044bf92..acc6f3df3 100644
--- a/src/borg/crypto/key.py
+++ b/src/borg/crypto/key.py
@@ -11,8 +11,6 @@ from ..logger import create_logger
 
 logger = create_logger()
 
-import argon2.low_level
-
 from ..constants import *  # NOQA
 from ..helpers import StableDict
 from ..helpers import Error, IntegrityError
@@ -466,17 +464,9 @@ class FlexiKey:
             parallelism = 1
             # 8 is the smallest value that avoids the "Memory cost is too small" exception
             memory_cost = 8
-        type_map = {"i": argon2.low_level.Type.I, "d": argon2.low_level.Type.D, "id": argon2.low_level.Type.ID}
-        key = argon2.low_level.hash_secret_raw(
-            secret=passphrase.encode("utf-8"),
-            hash_len=output_len_in_bytes,
-            salt=salt,
-            time_cost=time_cost,
-            memory_cost=memory_cost,
-            parallelism=parallelism,
-            type=type_map[type],
+        return low_level.argon2_hash(
+            passphrase.encode("utf-8"), salt, time_cost, memory_cost, parallelism, output_len_in_bytes, type
         )
-        return key
 
     def decrypt_key_file_pbkdf2(self, encrypted_key, passphrase):
         key = self.pbkdf2(passphrase, encrypted_key.salt, encrypted_key.iterations, 32)
diff --git a/src/borg/crypto/low_level.pyx b/src/borg/crypto/low_level.pyx
index 0d56717fa..86a2485b3 100644
--- a/src/borg/crypto/low_level.pyx
+++ b/src/borg/crypto/low_level.pyx
@@ -88,6 +88,34 @@ cdef extern from "openssl/evp.h":
     int EVP_CTRL_AEAD_SET_TAG
     int EVP_CTRL_AEAD_SET_IVLEN
 
+cdef extern from "openssl/kdf.h":
+    ctypedef struct EVP_KDF:
+        pass
+    ctypedef struct EVP_KDF_CTX:
+        pass
+    EVP_KDF *EVP_KDF_fetch(void *ctx, const char *algorithm, const char *properties)
+    void EVP_KDF_free(EVP_KDF *kdf)
+    EVP_KDF_CTX *EVP_KDF_CTX_new(EVP_KDF *kdf)
+    void EVP_KDF_CTX_free(EVP_KDF_CTX *ctx)
+    
+cdef extern from "openssl/params.h":
+    ctypedef struct OSSL_PARAM:
+        pass
+    OSSL_PARAM OSSL_PARAM_construct_uint32(const char *key, uint32_t *buf)
+    OSSL_PARAM OSSL_PARAM_construct_octet_string(const char *key, void *buf, size_t bsize)
+    OSSL_PARAM OSSL_PARAM_construct_end()
+
+cdef extern from "openssl/core_names.h":
+    const char *OSSL_KDF_PARAM_THREADS
+    const char *OSSL_KDF_PARAM_ARGON2_LANES
+    const char *OSSL_KDF_PARAM_ITER
+    const char *OSSL_KDF_PARAM_ARGON2_MEMCOST
+    const char *OSSL_KDF_PARAM_SALT
+    const char *OSSL_KDF_PARAM_PASSWORD
+
+cdef extern from "openssl/kdf.h":
+    int EVP_KDF_derive(EVP_KDF_CTX *ctx, unsigned char *key, size_t keylen, const OSSL_PARAM params[])
+
 
 import struct
 
@@ -944,3 +972,53 @@ cdef class CSPRNG:
 
             # Swap items[i] and items[j]
             items[i], items[j] = items[j], items[i]
+
+
+def argon2_hash(bytes secret, bytes salt, uint32_t time_cost, uint32_t memory_cost,
+                uint32_t parallelism, uint32_t hash_len, type):
+    cdef EVP_KDF *kdf = NULL
+    cdef EVP_KDF_CTX *kctx = NULL
+    cdef OSSL_PARAM params[8]
+    cdef OSSL_PARAM *p = params
+    cdef uint32_t threads = 1
+    cdef bytes result
+    cdef const char *alg_name
+    cdef const unsigned char *secret_c = secret
+    cdef const unsigned char *salt_c = salt
+
+    if type == "i" or type == b"i":
+        alg_name = b"ARGON2I"
+    elif type == "d" or type == b"d":
+        alg_name = b"ARGON2D"
+    elif type == "id" or type == b"id":
+        alg_name = b"ARGON2ID"
+    else:
+        raise ValueError("Invalid argon2 type")
+
+    kdf = EVP_KDF_fetch(NULL, alg_name, NULL)
+    if kdf == NULL:
+        raise CryptoError("Argon2 KDF not found in OpenSSL (requires >= 3.2)")
+
+    kctx = EVP_KDF_CTX_new(kdf)
+    if kctx == NULL:
+        EVP_KDF_free(kdf)
+        raise MemoryError("Failed to create KDF context")
+
+    p[0] = OSSL_PARAM_construct_uint32(OSSL_KDF_PARAM_THREADS, &threads)
+    p[1] = OSSL_PARAM_construct_uint32(OSSL_KDF_PARAM_ARGON2_LANES, &parallelism)
+    p[2] = OSSL_PARAM_construct_uint32(OSSL_KDF_PARAM_ITER, &time_cost)
+    p[3] = OSSL_PARAM_construct_uint32(OSSL_KDF_PARAM_ARGON2_MEMCOST, &memory_cost)
+    p[4] = OSSL_PARAM_construct_octet_string(OSSL_KDF_PARAM_SALT, <void *>salt_c, len(salt))
+    p[5] = OSSL_PARAM_construct_octet_string(OSSL_KDF_PARAM_PASSWORD, <void *>secret_c, len(secret))
+    p[6] = OSSL_PARAM_construct_end()
+
+    result = PyBytes_FromStringAndSize(NULL, hash_len)
+
+    if EVP_KDF_derive(kctx, <unsigned char *>result, hash_len, params) <= 0:
+        EVP_KDF_CTX_free(kctx)
+        EVP_KDF_free(kdf)
+        raise CryptoError("EVP_KDF_derive failed")
+
+    EVP_KDF_CTX_free(kctx)
+    EVP_KDF_free(kdf)
+    return result