diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/keyutils/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/keyutils/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 031ae5a65c39..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/keyutils/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub, keyutils, pytest-runner, pytest }:
-
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "keyutils";
-  version = "0.6";
-
-  # github version comes bundled with tests
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "sassoftware";
-    repo = "python-keyutils";
-    rev = version;
-    sha256 = "0pfqfr5xqgsqkxzrmj8xl2glyl4nbq0irs0k6ik7iy3gd3mxf5g1";
-  };
-
-  postPatch = ''
-    substituteInPlace setup.py --replace '"pytest-runner"' ""
-  '';
-
-  buildInputs = [ keyutils ];
-  nativeCheckInputs = [ pytest pytest-runner ];
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "A set of python bindings for keyutils";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/sassoftware/python-keyutils";
-    license = lib.licenses.asl20;
-    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ primeos ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
index f44a985d0199..75cc73b237a0 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
@@ -157,6 +157,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   jupyter_server = jupyter-server; # added 2023-01-05
   Kajiki = kajiki; # added 2023-02-19
   Keras = keras; # added 2021-11-25
+  keyutils = throw "keyutils no longer builds and is unmaintained"; # added 2023-06-10
   ldap = python-ldap; # added 2022-09-16
   lammps-cython = throw "lammps-cython no longer builds and is unmaintained"; # added 2021-07-04
   logilab_astng = throw "logilab-astng has not been released since 2013 and is unmaintained"; # added 2022-11-29
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index e44b27d24d48..4a4104c0b036 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -5451,10 +5451,6 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   keystoneauth1 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/keystoneauth1 { };
 
-  keyutils = callPackage ../development/python-modules/keyutils {
-    inherit (pkgs) keyutils;
-  };
-
   kicad = toPythonModule (pkgs.kicad.override {
     python3 = python;
   }).src;