diff --git a/recipes-kde/other/qca/files/0001-use-pkg-config-to-find-libgcrypt.patch b/recipes-kde/other/qca/files/0001-use-pkg-config-to-find-libgcrypt.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..19b835fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-kde/other/qca/files/0001-use-pkg-config-to-find-libgcrypt.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+From 1663aa4fef3954ad04f6f7210b42199cac72827b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Andreas=20M=C3=BCller?= <schnitzeltony@googlemail.com>
+Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 23:23:38 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] use pkg-config to find libgcrypt
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [config]
+
+Signed-off-by: Andreas Müller <schnitzeltony@googlemail.com>
+---
+ cmake/modules/FindLibGcrypt.cmake | 4 ++--
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/cmake/modules/FindLibGcrypt.cmake b/cmake/modules/FindLibGcrypt.cmake
+index 679ef69..29ec42d 100644
+--- a/cmake/modules/FindLibGcrypt.cmake
++++ b/cmake/modules/FindLibGcrypt.cmake
+@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ IF(LIBGCRYPTCONFIG_EXECUTABLE)
+ 
+   # workaround for MinGW/MSYS
+   # CMake can't starts shell scripts on windows so it need to use sh.exe
+-  EXECUTE_PROCESS(COMMAND sh ${LIBGCRYPTCONFIG_EXECUTABLE} --libs RESULT_VARIABLE _return_VALUE OUTPUT_VARIABLE LIBGCRYPT_LIBRARIES OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE)
+-  EXECUTE_PROCESS(COMMAND sh ${LIBGCRYPTCONFIG_EXECUTABLE} --cflags RESULT_VARIABLE _return_VALUE OUTPUT_VARIABLE LIBGCRYPT_CFLAGS OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE)
++  EXECUTE_PROCESS(COMMAND pkg-config libgcrypt --libs RESULT_VARIABLE _return_VALUE OUTPUT_VARIABLE LIBGCRYPT_LIBRARIES OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE)
++  EXECUTE_PROCESS(COMMAND pkg-config libgcrypt --cflags RESULT_VARIABLE _return_VALUE OUTPUT_VARIABLE LIBGCRYPT_CFLAGS OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE)
+ 
+   IF(NOT LIBGCRYPT_CFLAGS AND NOT _return_VALUE)
+     SET(LIBGCRYPT_CFLAGS " ")
+-- 
+2.5.0
+
diff --git a/recipes-kde/other/qca/qca_2.1.1.bb b/recipes-kde/other/qca/qca_2.1.1.bb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..75043cf8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-kde/other/qca/qca_2.1.1.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+SUMMARY = "QCA provides a straightforward and cross-platform crypto API"
+LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = " \
+    file://COPYING;md5=fbc093901857fcd118f065f900982c24 \
+"
+
+inherit kde-base cmake-lib
+
+# TBD: PACKAGECONFIG
+DEPENDS += " \
+    qtsvg \
+    nss \
+    cyrus-sasl \
+    libgcrypt \
+    pkcs11-helper \
+"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "657cc701316600199199a6b6cb2c73c9"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "95de3e7910b5f9ec7084169989c9d98bfb527e6a4865fe17269c3b24308be983"
+SRC_URI += "file://0001-use-pkg-config-to-find-libgcrypt.patch"
+
+EXTRA_OECMAKE += "-DQCA_FEATURE_INSTALL_DIR=${libdir}${QT_DIR_NAME}/mkspecs/features"
+
+FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/qca-qt5/crypto"
+FILES_${PN}-dbg += "${libdir}/qca-qt5/crypto/.debug"
+
+# cross libs / headers
+CMAKE_ALIGN_SYSROOT[1] = "Qca-qt5, -S${libdir}/lib, -S${STAGING_LIBDIR}/lib"
+CMAKE_ALIGN_SYSROOT[2] = "Qca-qt5, -S${includedir}, -S${STAGING_INCDIR}"