diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 434d01b3d5f..273e83a770c 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -14,4 +14,4 @@
 	url = https://github.com/gflags/gflags.git
 [submodule "third_party/googletest"]
 	path = third_party/googletest
-	url = git://github.com/google/googletest
+	url = git@github.com:google/googletest
diff --git a/third_party/googletest b/third_party/googletest
new file mode 160000
index 00000000000..c99458533a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/third_party/googletest
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit c99458533a9b4c743ed51537e25989ea55944908