diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index ee9434aca..72500076e 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -144,8 +144,6 @@ jobs:
       - *store_gomod
   interop:
     executor: node
-    environment:
-      IPFS_GO_EXEC: /tmp/circleci-workspace/bin/ipfs
     parallelism: 4
     steps:
       - *make_out_dirs
@@ -169,6 +167,11 @@ jobs:
           key: v1-interop-{{ checksum "~/ipfs/go-ipfs/interop/package-lock.json" }}
           paths:
             - ~/ipfs/go-ipfs/interop/node_modules
+      - run:
+          name: Installing js-ipfs
+          command: |
+            npm install ipfs
+          working_directory: ~/ipfs/go-ipfs/interop
       - run:
           name: Installing reporting tools
           command: |
@@ -185,6 +188,8 @@ jobs:
           working_directory: ~/ipfs/go-ipfs/interop
           environment:
             IPFS_REUSEPORT: false
+            LIBP2P_ALLOW_WEAK_RSA_KEYS: true
+            IPFS_GO_EXEC: /tmp/circleci-workspace/bin/ipfs
       - store_test_results:
           path: /tmp/test-results
   go-ipfs-api: