diff --git a/dev-python/sslcrypto/Manifest b/dev-python/sslcrypto/Manifest
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+++ b/dev-python/sslcrypto/Manifest
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+DIST sslcrypto-5.3.tar.gz 28108 BLAKE2B 36d49b20a761c90b58949f29b6f92f3550c17d3f16b4a9798b5b9e76b7346a835c912fbd461274c457a732eef616e17ed886c8e05af17a03fd069839d8ab5cf8 SHA512 3a873dc5ad38576301d7da1a78d1772ee41d45a749e5bf35146711283908947dfef6f64f67c0984d09f7a96513d3481d6c768d04a93d2ba96a0e89add16759ac
diff --git a/dev-python/sslcrypto/metadata.xml b/dev-python/sslcrypto/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<stabilize-allarches/>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="pypi">sslcrypto</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-python/sslcrypto/sslcrypto-5.3.ebuild b/dev-python/sslcrypto/sslcrypto-5.3.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2024 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{12..13} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1 pypi
+
+DESCRIPTION="ECIES, AES and RSA OpenSSL-based implementation with fallback"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://pypi.org/project/sslcrypto/
+"
+
+LICENSE="MIT BSD-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+#Missing some files in test/ ?
+RESTRICT="test"
+
+DEPEND="dev-python/base58
+	dev-python/pyaes
+"
+RDEPEND="${RDPEND}"
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+src_prepare() {
+	#ends up stray and doesn't work anyway due to missing files
+	rm -rf "${S}/test"
+	distutils-r1_src_prepare
+}