diff --git a/packages/security/libgcrypt/build b/packages/security/libgcrypt/build
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..0bb655afcf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/security/libgcrypt/build
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+. config/options $1
+
+cd $PKG_BUILD
+./configure --host=$TARGET_NAME \
+            --build=$HOST_NAME \
+            --prefix=/usr \
+            --sysconfdir=/etc \
+            --localstatedir=/var \
+            --disable-static \
+            --enable-shared \
+            --disable-asm \
+            --with-gnu-ld
+
+make
+$MAKEINSTALL
+
+sed -e "s:\(['= ]\)/usr:\\1$SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr:g" -i src/libgcrypt-config
+
+cp src/libgcrypt-config $ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN/bin
diff --git a/packages/security/libgcrypt/install b/packages/security/libgcrypt/install
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..6508276a1e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/security/libgcrypt/install
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+. config/options $1
+
+mkdir -p $INSTALL/usr/lib
+  cp -P $PKG_BUILD/src/.libs/*.so* $INSTALL/usr/lib
diff --git a/packages/security/libgcrypt/meta b/packages/security/libgcrypt/meta
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7a4c23ec73
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/security/libgcrypt/meta
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+PKG_NAME="libgcrypt"
+PKG_VERSION="1.4.6"
+PKG_REV="1"
+PKG_ARCH="any"
+PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
+PKG_SITE="http://www.gnupg.org/"
+PKG_URL="ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
+PKG_DEPENDS="libgpg-error"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain libgpg-error"
+PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
+PKG_SECTION="security"
+PKG_SHORTDESC="libgcrypt: General purpose cryptographic library"
+PKG_LONGDESC="Libgcrypt is a general purpose cryptographic library based on the code from GnuPG. It provides functions for all cryptographic building blocks: symmetric ciphers, hash algorithms, MACs, public key algorithms, large integer functions, random numbers and a lot of supporting functions."
+PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
+
+PKG_AUTORECONF="yes"
diff --git a/packages/security/libgcrypt/patches/libgcrypt-1.4.6-gpg_error_libs.patch b/packages/security/libgcrypt/patches/libgcrypt-1.4.6-gpg_error_libs.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..58ba876acd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/security/libgcrypt/patches/libgcrypt-1.4.6-gpg_error_libs.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+diff -Naur libgcrypt-1.4.6-old/tests/Makefile.am libgcrypt-1.4.6-new/tests/Makefile.am
+--- libgcrypt-1.4.6-old/tests/Makefile.am	2010-07-13 07:05:56.000000000 -0700
++++ libgcrypt-1.4.6-new/tests/Makefile.am	2010-08-10 10:00:44.000000000 -0700
+@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
+ # a built header.
+ AM_CPPFLAGS = -I../src -I$(top_srcdir)/src
+ AM_CFLAGS = $(GPG_ERROR_CFLAGS)
++AM_LDFLAGS = $(GPG_ERROR_LIBS)
+ 
+ LDADD = ../src/libgcrypt.la $(DL_LIBS)
+ 
+diff -Naur libgcrypt-1.4.6-old/tests/Makefile.in libgcrypt-1.4.6-new/tests/Makefile.in
+--- libgcrypt-1.4.6-old/tests/Makefile.in	2010-07-13 08:42:21.000000000 -0700
++++ libgcrypt-1.4.6-new/tests/Makefile.in	2010-08-10 10:02:01.000000000 -0700
+@@ -338,6 +338,7 @@
+ # a built header.
+ AM_CPPFLAGS = -I../src -I$(top_srcdir)/src
+ AM_CFLAGS = $(GPG_ERROR_CFLAGS)
++AM_LDFLAGS = $(GPG_ERROR_LIBS)
+ LDADD = ../src/libgcrypt.la $(DL_LIBS)
+ EXTRA_DIST = README rsa-16k.key cavs_tests.sh cavs_driver.pl
+ all: all-am