diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 9e925dc1d..9f58aab48 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ linux (4.5-1~exp2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
     sata-modules.
   * [mips*/octeon] Bump CONFIG_NR_CPUS to 32 to accomodate recent Octeon
     III SoCs.
+  * [mips*/octeon] Enable CRYPTO_MD5_OCTEON, CRYPTO_SHA1_OCTEON, CRYPTO_SHA256
+    and CRYPTO_SHA512_OCTEON.
+
 
  -- Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>  Fri, 25 Mar 2016 13:43:57 +0000
 
diff --git a/debian/config/kernelarch-mips/config.octeon b/debian/config/kernelarch-mips/config.octeon
index 4ecbb6c2b..36df78973 100644
--- a/debian/config/kernelarch-mips/config.octeon
+++ b/debian/config/kernelarch-mips/config.octeon
@@ -28,6 +28,14 @@ CONFIG_CAVIUM_OCTEON_LOCK_L2_LOW_LEVEL_INTERRUPT=y
 CONFIG_CAVIUM_OCTEON_LOCK_L2_INTERRUPT=y
 CONFIG_CAVIUM_OCTEON_LOCK_L2_MEMCPY=y
 
+##
+## file: crypto/Kconfig
+##
+CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD5_OCTEON=m
+CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA1_OCTEON=m
+CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA256_OCTEON=m
+CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA512_OCTEON=m
+
 ##
 ## file: drivers/ata/Kconfig
 ##