diff --git a/patches/systemvm/debian/vpn/etc/ipsec.secrets b/patches/systemvm/debian/vpn/etc/ipsec.secrets
index 67ae69886cb..d9a9a43c747 100644
--- a/patches/systemvm/debian/vpn/etc/ipsec.secrets
+++ b/patches/systemvm/debian/vpn/etc/ipsec.secrets
@@ -1,12 +1,2 @@
-# 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
 include /etc/ipsec.d/ipsec.*.secrets
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index eeb7606bc1d..cf1cc6f6c6f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -248,7 +248,6 @@
               <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.d/l2tp.conf</exclude>
-              <exclude>patches/systemvm/debian/vpn/etc/ipsec.secrets</exclude>
               <exclude>tools/devcloud/basebuild/puppet-devcloudinitial/files/network.conf</exclude>
               <exclude>tools/devcloud/devcloud.cfg</exclude>
               <exclude>ui/lib/flot/jquery.colorhelpers.js</exclude>