diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/keyutils/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/keyutils/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..031ae5a65c39
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/keyutils/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+{ 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 75cc73b237a0..f44a985d0199 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-aliases.nix
@@ -157,7 +157,6 @@ 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 aaaec9356c3a..23cecba0fb71 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -5451,6 +5451,10 @@ 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;