diff --git a/patches/systemvm/debian/vpn/etc/ipsec.secrets.orig b/patches/systemvm/debian/vpn/etc/ipsec.secrets.orig
deleted file mode 100644
index 6885545e8e8..00000000000
--- a/patches/systemvm/debian/vpn/etc/ipsec.secrets.orig
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-# RCSID $Id: ipsec.secrets.proto,v 1.3.6.1 2005/09/28 13:59:14 paul Exp $
-# This file holds shared secrets or RSA private keys for inter-Pluto
-# authentication.  See ipsec_pluto(8) manpage, and HTML documentation.
-
-# RSA private key for this host, authenticating it to any other host
-# which knows the public part.  Suitable public keys, for ipsec.conf, DNS,
-# or configuration of other implementations, can be extracted conveniently
-# with "ipsec showhostkey".
-
-# this file is managed with debconf and will contain the automatically created RSA keys
-include /var/lib/openswan/ipsec.secrets.inc
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index fad7c2735c6..eeb7606bc1d 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -247,7 +247,6 @@
               <exclude>patches/systemvm/debian/config/var/lib/misc/dnsmasq.leases</exclude>
               <exclude>patches/systemvm/debian/config/var/www/html/userdata/.htaccess</exclude>
               <exclude>patches/systemvm/debian/config/var/www/html/latest/.htaccess</exclude>
-              <exclude>patches/systemvm/debian/vpn/etc/ipsec.secrets.orig</exclude>
               <exclude>patches/systemvm/debian/vpn/etc/ipsec.d/l2tp.conf</exclude>
               <exclude>patches/systemvm/debian/vpn/etc/ipsec.secrets</exclude>
               <exclude>tools/devcloud/basebuild/puppet-devcloudinitial/files/network.conf</exclude>