diff --git a/packages/security/libtasn1/build b/packages/security/libtasn1/build
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..d5c19bac29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/security/libtasn1/build
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+. config/options $1
+
+cd $PKG_BUILD
+./configure --host=$TARGET_NAME \
+            --build=$HOST_NAME \
+            --prefix=/usr \
+            --sysconfdir=/etc \
+            --disable-static \
+            --enable-shared \
+
+make
+$MAKEINSTALL
diff --git a/packages/security/libtasn1/install b/packages/security/libtasn1/install
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..6affa11e33
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/security/libtasn1/install
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+. config/options $1
+
+mkdir -p $INSTALL/usr/lib
+  cp -P $PKG_BUILD/lib/.libs/*.so* $INSTALL/usr/lib
diff --git a/packages/security/libtasn1/meta b/packages/security/libtasn1/meta
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..10c7c9a74d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/security/libtasn1/meta
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+PKG_NAME="libtasn1"
+PKG_VERSION="2.9"
+PKG_REV="1"
+PKG_ARCH="any"
+PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
+PKG_SITE="http://www.gnupg.org/"
+PKG_URL="ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/pub/gnutls/libtasn1/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
+PKG_DEPENDS=""
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain"
+PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
+PKG_SECTION="security"
+PKG_SHORTDESC="libtasn1: Library for ASN.1 and DER manipulation"
+PKG_LONGDESC="Libtasn is a library written in C for manipulating ASN.1 objects including DER/BER encoding and DER/BER decoding. Libtasn is used by GnuTLS to manipulate X.509 objects and by GNU Shishi to handle Kerberos V5 packets."
+PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
+
+PKG_AUTORECONF="no"