diff --git a/security/nettle/nettle.cache b/security/nettle/nettle.cache
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..44e6c3a5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/security/nettle/nettle.cache
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+
+[TIMESTAMP] 1303759096 Mon Apr 25 21:18:16 2011
+[BUILDTIME] 25 (5)
+[SIZE] 0.92 MB, 58 files
+
+[DEP] bash
+[DEP] binutils
+[DEP] bzip2
+[DEP] coreutils
+[DEP] diffutils
+[DEP] dpkg
+[DEP] fhs
+[DEP] findutils
+[DEP] gawk
+[DEP] gcc
+[DEP] glibc
+[DEP] gmp
+[DEP] grep
+[DEP] linux-header
+[DEP] m4
+[DEP] make
+[DEP] mktemp
+[DEP] openssl
+[DEP] perl
+[DEP] perl-gettext
+[DEP] sed
+[DEP] sysfiles
+[DEP] tar
+[DEP] util-linux-ng
diff --git a/security/nettle/nettle.conf b/security/nettle/nettle.conf
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index 000000000..295333f34
--- /dev/null
+++ b/security/nettle/nettle.conf
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+# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+#
+# Filename: package/.../nettle/nettle.conf
+# Copyright (C) 2011 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 ---
+
+# shared libs are not build by default
+if [ "$SDECFG_STATIC" != 1 ]; then
+	var_append extraconfopt ' ' "--enable-shared"
+fi
diff --git a/security/nettle/nettle.desc b/security/nettle/nettle.desc
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+[COPY] --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+[COPY] This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+[COPY]
+[COPY] Filename: package/.../nettle/nettle.desc
+[COPY] Copyright (C) 2011 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 cryptographic library that is designed to fit in any context
+
+[T] Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily in more or
+[T] less any context: In crypto toolkits for object-oriented languages (C++,
+[T] Python, Pike, ...), in applications like LSH or GNUPG, or even in kernel
+[T] space.
+
+[U] http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/
+
+[A] Niels Möller <nisse@lysator.liu.s>
+[M] Christian Wiese <chris@opensde.org>
+
+[C] extra/security
+
+[L] GPL LGPL
+[S] Stable
+[V] 2.1
+[P] X -----5---9 108.700
+
+[D] 385811976 nettle-2.1.tar.gz http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive/