diff --git a/fuzzers/FRET/Cargo.toml b/fuzzers/FRET/Cargo.toml
index 4002869e5c..58b66de041 100644
--- a/fuzzers/FRET/Cargo.toml
+++ b/fuzzers/FRET/Cargo.toml
@@ -23,4 +23,5 @@ libafl_qemu = { path = "../../libafl_qemu/", features = ["arm", "systemmode"] }
 serde = { version = "1.0", default-features = false, features = ["alloc"] } # serialization lib
 hashbrown =  { version = "0.12", features = ["serde", "ahash-compile-time-rng"] } # A faster hashmap, nostd compatible
 petgraph = { version="0.6.0", features = ["serde-1"] }
-ron = "0.7" # write serialized data - including hashmaps
\ No newline at end of file
+ron = "0.7" # write serialized data - including hashmaps
+rand = "0.5"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/fuzzers/FRET/src/fuzzer.rs b/fuzzers/FRET/src/fuzzer.rs
index 1e05eca309..05d47ec0dd 100644
--- a/fuzzers/FRET/src/fuzzer.rs
+++ b/fuzzers/FRET/src/fuzzer.rs
@@ -340,11 +340,13 @@ pub fn fuzz() {
                     let num = str::parse::<u64>(&t).expect("FUZZ_ITERS was not a number");
                     if let Ok(_) = env::var("FUZZ_RANDOM") { unsafe {
                         println!("Random Fuzzing, ignore corpus");
-                        let mut generator = RandBytesGenerator::new(MAX_INPUT_SIZE);
+                        // let mut generator = RandBytesGenerator::new(MAX_INPUT_SIZE);
                         let target_duration = Duration::from_secs(num);
                         let start_time = std::time::Instant::now();
                         while start_time.elapsed() < target_duration {
-                            let inp = generator.generate(&mut state).unwrap();
+                            // let inp = generator.generate(&mut state).unwrap();
+                            // libafl's generator is too slow
+                            let inp = BytesInput::new(vec![rand::random::<u8>(); MAX_INPUT_SIZE]);
                             fuzzer.evaluate_input(&mut state, &mut executor, &mut mgr, inp).unwrap();
                         }
                     }} else {