diff --git a/test/afl/README.md b/test/afl/README.md
index 8e841c56..beafff3d 100644
--- a/test/afl/README.md
+++ b/test/afl/README.md
@@ -26,13 +26,6 @@ to the *libpng-nocrc.patch* patch included in the AFL sources. The corresponding
 commit that enables this functionality in fwknop is aaa44656bcfcb705d80768a7b9aa0d45a0e55e21
 (see: [https://github.com/mrash/fwknop/commit/aaa44656bcfcb705d80768a7b9aa0d45a0e55e21])
 
-One exception to the need for compiling fwknop wtih *--enable-afl-fuzzing* is
-when using AFL to fuzz the fwknoprc file that is leveraged by the fwknop client.
-In this case, fwknop should not be compiled with
-*--enable-afl-fuzzing* (use the *compile/afl-compile-no-enable-arg.sh* script)
-since the fwknoprc file parsing routines are fuzzed instead of the SPA packet
-encoding/decoding cycles.
-
 ## AFL Wrappers
 
 The top level directory contains enabling scripts in order to make it easy to
diff --git a/test/afl/fuzzing-wrappers/client-rc.sh b/test/afl/fuzzing-wrappers/client-rc.sh
index 1b4c7b23..84ea72c3 100755
--- a/test/afl/fuzzing-wrappers/client-rc.sh
+++ b/test/afl/fuzzing-wrappers/client-rc.sh
@@ -26,10 +26,6 @@ then
     IN_DIR=$PREV_OUT_DIR
 fi
 
-### make sure the client can handle the rc file
-./fuzzing-wrappers/helpers/fwknop-rc-test.sh || \
-    { echo "[*] Client rc file fuzzing requires compilation with ./compile/afl-compile-no-enable-args.sh"; exit 1; }
-
 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LIB_DIR afl-fuzz \
     -T $BANNER -t 1000 -i $IN_DIR -o $OUT_DIR -f $OUT_DIR/fwknoprc \
     $CLIENT --rc-file $OUT_DIR/fwknoprc -T -a 1.1.1.1 -n testhost.com