diff --git a/packages/python/security/pycrypto/package.mk b/packages/python/security/pycrypto/package.mk
deleted file mode 100644
index d2cd78bbf3..0000000000
--- a/packages/python/security/pycrypto/package.mk
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,56 +0,0 @@
-################################################################################
-#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
-#      Copyright (C) 2009-2016 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
-#
-#  OpenELEC is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#  the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
-#  (at your option) any later version.
-#
-#  OpenELEC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-#  GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#  along with OpenELEC.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-################################################################################
-
-PKG_NAME="pycrypto"
-PKG_VERSION="2.6.1"
-PKG_ARCH="any"
-PKG_LICENSE="LGPL"
-PKG_SITE="https://www.dlitz.net/software/pycrypto/"
-PKG_URL="http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/$PKG_NAME/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
-PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain Python distutilscross:host"
-PKG_SECTION="python/security"
-PKG_SHORTDESC="PyCrypto - The Python Cryptography Toolkit"
-PKG_LONGDESC="The Python Cryptography Toolkit describes a package containing various cryptographic modules for the Python programming language"
-
-PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
-PKG_AUTORECONF="no"
-
-PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_TARGET="ac_cv_func_realloc_0_nonnull=yes \
-                           ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull=yes \
-                           --without-gmp --without-mpir"
-
-pre_configure_target() {
-  cd $PKG_BUILD
-  rm -rf .$TARGET_NAME
-
-  export PYTHONXCPREFIX="$SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr"
-#  export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L$SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/lib -L$SYSROOT_PREFIX/lib"
-  export LDSHARED="$CC -shared"
-}
-
-make_target() {
-  python setup.py build --cross-compile
-}
-
-makeinstall_target() {
-  python setup.py install --root=$INSTALL --prefix=/usr
-}
-
-post_makeinstall_target() {
-  find $INSTALL/usr/lib -name "*.py" -exec rm -rf "{}" ";"
-}
diff --git a/packages/python/security/pycrypto/patches/pycrypto-2.6-setuptools.patch b/packages/python/security/pycrypto/patches/pycrypto-2.6-setuptools.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 14af65ffce..0000000000
--- a/packages/python/security/pycrypto/patches/pycrypto-2.6-setuptools.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -Naur pycrypto-2.6/setup.py pycrypto-2.6.patch/setup.py
---- pycrypto-2.6/setup.py	2012-05-24 14:55:30.000000000 +0200
-+++ pycrypto-2.6.patch/setup.py	2012-06-03 03:58:00.599383392 +0200
-@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
- 
- from distutils import core
- from distutils.ccompiler import new_compiler
--from distutils.core import Extension, Command
-+from setuptools import Extension, Command
- from distutils.command.build import build
- from distutils.command.build_ext import build_ext
- import os, sys, re