diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 01d3671d2..6922167b6 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ FetchContent_MakeAvailable(Sodium)
 if (DEFINED ENV{RELIC_MAIN})
   set(RELIC_GIT_TAG "origin/main")
 else ()
-  # This is currently anchored to upstream b7b2266a0e4ee6f628f61d3ab638f524a18b52f1
-  set(RELIC_GIT_TAG "31ca41446528f4c35525d5690da249ce6c0d43a1")
+  # This is currently anchored to upstream aecdcae7956f542fbee2392c1f0feb0a8ac41dc5
+  set(RELIC_GIT_TAG "1d98e5abf3ca5b14fd729bd5bcced88ea70ecfd7")
 endif ()
 
 message(STATUS "Relic will be built from: ${RELIC_GIT_TAG}")
diff --git a/src/test.cpp b/src/test.cpp
index 7a59847b7..5af5ea775 100644
--- a/src/test.cpp
+++ b/src/test.cpp
@@ -468,13 +468,9 @@ TEST_CASE("Error handling")
     SECTION("Should throw on a bad public key")
     {
         vector<uint8_t> buf(G1Element::SIZE, 0);
-        // This are all the "first byte values" which are tested to be valid G1 elements if the remaining bytes are zero.
-        std::vector<uint8_t> vecValid{0x85, 0x86, 0x87, 0x88, 0x89, 0x8C, 0x8F, 0x91, 0x93, 0x94, 0x96, 0x98, 0x99, 0x9A,
-                                      0xA5, 0xA6, 0xA7, 0xA8, 0xA9, 0xAC, 0xAF, 0xB1, 0xB3, 0xB4, 0xB6, 0xB8, 0xB9, 0xBA,
-                                      0xC0};
         for (int i = 0; i < 0xFF; i++) {
             buf[0] = (uint8_t)i;
-            if (std::find(vecValid.begin(), vecValid.end(), i) != vecValid.end()) {
+            if (i == 0xc0) { // Infinity prefix shouldn't throw here as we have only zero values
                 REQUIRE_NOTHROW(G1Element::FromByteVector(buf));
             } else {
                 REQUIRE_THROWS(G1Element::FromByteVector(buf));
@@ -485,7 +481,6 @@ TEST_CASE("Error handling")
     SECTION("Should throw on a bad G2Element")
     {
         vector<uint8_t> buf(G2Element::SIZE, 0);
-
         for (int i = 0; i < 0xFF; i++) {
             buf[0] = (uint8_t)i;
             if (i == 0xc0) { // Infinity prefix shouldn't throw here as we have only zero values