diff --git a/develop/crypto++/crypto++.cache b/develop/crypto++/crypto++.cache
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ee66ded32
--- /dev/null
+++ b/develop/crypto++/crypto++.cache
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+
+[TIMESTAMP] 1282731075 Wed Aug 25 12:11:15 2010
+[BUILDTIME] 65 (5)
+[SIZE] 22.50 MB, 143 files
+
+[DEP] bash
+[DEP] binutils
+[DEP] coreutils
+[DEP] diffutils
+[DEP] fhs
+[DEP] findutils
+[DEP] gawk
+[DEP] gcc
+[DEP] glibc
+[DEP] grep
+[DEP] linux-header
+[DEP] make
+[DEP] patch
+[DEP] sed
+[DEP] unzip
+[DEP] util-linux-ng
diff --git a/develop/crypto++/crypto++.conf b/develop/crypto++/crypto++.conf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..65d6a159b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/develop/crypto++/crypto++.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+#
+# Filename: package/.../crypto++/crypto++.conf
+# Copyright (C) 2010 The OpenSDE Project
+#
+# More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
+#
+# This program 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; version 2 of the License. A copy of the
+# GNU General Public License can be found in the file COPYING.
+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
+
+# the ugly source zip file has no dedicated source directory 
+chownsrcdir=0
+srcdir=.
+
+var_append makeinstopt ' ' 'PREFIX=$root/$prefix'
diff --git a/develop/crypto++/crypto++.desc b/develop/crypto++/crypto++.desc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1cd7411fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/develop/crypto++/crypto++.desc
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+[COPY] --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+[COPY] This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+[COPY]
+[COPY] Filename: package/.../crypto++/crypto++.desc
+[COPY] Copyright (C) 2010 The OpenSDE Project
+[COPY]
+[COPY] More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
+[COPY]
+[COPY] This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+[COPY] it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+[COPY] the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License. A copy of the
+[COPY] GNU General Public License can be found in the file COPYING.
+[COPY] --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
+
+[I] A free C++ class library of cryptographic schemes
+
+[T] Crypto++ Library is a free C++ class library of cryptographic schemes.
+
+[U] http://www.cryptopp.com
+
+[A] Wei Dai
+[M] The OpenSDE Community <list@opensde.org>
+
+[C] extra/library
+[F] FPIC-QUIRK
+
+[L] PublicDomain
+[S] Stable
+[V] 5.6.1
+[P] X -----5---9 110.000
+
+[D] 2158693062 cryptopp561.zip http://www.cryptopp.com/
diff --git a/develop/crypto++/libs-only.patch b/develop/crypto++/libs-only.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4240e2d21
--- /dev/null
+++ b/develop/crypto++/libs-only.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+#
+# Filename: package/.../crypto++/libs-only.patch
+# Copyright (C) 2010 The OpenSDE Project
+#
+# More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
+#
+# This patch file is dual-licensed. It is available under the license the
+# patched project is licensed under, as long as it is an OpenSource license
+# as defined at http://www.opensource.org/ (e.g. BSD, X11) or 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.
+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
+
+Description:
+  This patch is changing the crypto++ makefile to build both, a static
+  and a shared version of the library, but not the supplied test
+  application.
+
+TODO:
+  There is quite some room for improvements inside of the makefile, so
+  it would be good to have an more "inteligent" way to select what kind
+  of library should be build (i.e. static and shared, static-only,
+  shared-only).
+  Besides that the 'install' target is very poorly implemented and should
+  be improved to consider the variants mentioned above!
+
+--- ./GNUmakefile.orig	2010-08-09 14:22:42.000000000 +0200
++++ ./GNUmakefile	2010-08-25 12:02:14.476057984 +0200
+@@ -131,7 +131,11 @@
+ TESTIMPORTOBJS = $(TESTOBJS:.o=.import.o)
+ DLLTESTOBJS = dlltest.dllonly.o
+ 
+-all: cryptest.exe
++all: static shared
++
++static: libcryptopp.a
++
++shared: libcryptopp.so
+ 
+ test: cryptest.exe
+ 	./cryptest.exe v
+@@ -144,7 +148,6 @@
+ 	$(CP) *.h $(PREFIX)/include/cryptopp
+ 	$(CP) *.a $(PREFIX)/lib
+ 	$(CP) *.so $(PREFIX)/lib
+-	$(CP) *.exe $(PREFIX)/bin
+ 
+ libcryptopp.a: $(LIBOBJS)
+ 	$(AR) $(ARFLAGS) $@ $(LIBOBJS)