diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index c762a3c3f6b7af0467546b8ebb7056fb03762b4b..2586aa6136ea14a60808661b45eddd25a9e0982a 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -136,7 +136,6 @@ testfont binary
 /src/modules/_Crypto/cbc.c foreign_ident
 /src/modules/_Crypto/crypto.c foreign_ident
 /src/modules/_Crypto/crypto.h foreign_ident
-/src/modules/_Crypto/crypto.pre.pike foreign_ident
 /src/modules/_Crypto/des.c foreign_ident
 /src/modules/_Crypto/des.pike foreign_ident
 /src/modules/_Crypto/idea.c foreign_ident
diff --git a/src/modules/_Crypto/crypto.pre.pike b/src/modules/_Crypto/crypto.pre.pike
deleted file mode 100644
index e10d8ab67a82a04ab11bd9b54127d03d8cc980b8..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/src/modules/_Crypto/crypto.pre.pike
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-/* $Id: crypto.pre.pike,v 1.4 1997/05/31 22:04:08 grubba Exp $ */
-
-void create()
-{
-  string module, name;
-  foreach( ({ "crypto" }) , module)
-    /*    , "idea", "des", "invert", "sha", "pipe", "cbc" }) */
-    {
-      name = "./" + module + ".so";
-      if (!load_module(name)) {
-	werror("Couldn't load module \"" + name + "\"\n");
-      }
-    }
-}