diff --git a/rust/Cargo.lock b/rust/Cargo.lock
index eccb998f..8ec16c3e 100644
--- a/rust/Cargo.lock
+++ b/rust/Cargo.lock
@@ -205,6 +205,18 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.52.0",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "enum_dispatch"
+version = "0.3.13"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "aa18ce2bc66555b3218614519ac839ddb759a7d6720732f979ef8d13be147ecd"
+dependencies = [
+ "once_cell",
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "errno"
 version = "0.3.1"
@@ -561,6 +573,7 @@ version = "0.10.0"
 dependencies = [
  "byteorder",
  "curl",
+ "enum_dispatch",
  "foreign-types",
  "log",
  "openssl",
diff --git a/rust/pv/Cargo.toml b/rust/pv/Cargo.toml
index 5cd8b44d..b04f65f6 100644
--- a/rust/pv/Cargo.toml
+++ b/rust/pv/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ readme = "README.md"
 [dependencies]
 byteorder = "1.3"
 curl = "0.4.44"
+enum_dispatch = "0.3.13"
 foreign-types = "0.3.1"
 log = { version = "0.4.6", features = ["std", "release_max_level_debug"] }
 openssl = "0.10.57"
diff --git a/rust/pv/src/crypto.rs b/rust/pv/src/crypto.rs
index 2639448c..bf37b650 100644
--- a/rust/pv/src/crypto.rs
+++ b/rust/pv/src/crypto.rs
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 //
 // Copyright IBM Corp. 2023, 2024
 
+use enum_dispatch::enum_dispatch;
 use openssl::{
     derive::Deriver,
     ec::{EcGroup, EcKey},
@@ -50,8 +51,14 @@ impl From<SymKeyType> for Nid {
     }
 }
 
+/// The `enum_dispatch` macros needs at least one local trait to be implemented.
+#[allow(unused)]
+#[enum_dispatch(SymKey)]
+trait SymKeyTrait {}
+
 /// Types of symmetric keys
 #[non_exhaustive]
+#[enum_dispatch()]
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
 pub enum SymKey {
     /// AES 256 GCM key (32 bytes)
@@ -92,12 +99,6 @@ impl SymKey {
     }
 }
 
-impl From<Aes256Key> for SymKey {
-    fn from(value: Aes256Key) -> Self {
-        Self::Aes256(value)
-    }
-}
-
 /// Performs an hkdf according to RFC 5869.
 /// See [`OpenSSL HKDF`]()
 ///
@@ -532,4 +533,13 @@ mod tests {
             SymKeyType::Aes256Xts
         );
     }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn try_from_and_into() {
+        let data = [0x1u8; 32];
+        let key: SymKey = Aes256Key::new(data).into();
+        assert_eq!(key.value(), &data);
+        let key_aes: Aes256Key = key.try_into().expect("should not fail");
+        assert_eq!(key_aes.value(), &data);
+    }
 }