diff --git a/libexec/makekey/makekey.8 b/libexec/makekey/makekey.8
index 90107d95ac2e..7e4967b43998 100644
--- a/libexec/makekey/makekey.8
+++ b/libexec/makekey/makekey.8
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 .\"     @(#)makekey.8	8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd December 11, 1993
+.Dd October 8, 2003
 .Dt MAKEKEY 8
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@
 .Nm
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The
+.Nm makekey
+utility has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release of
+.Fx .
+.Pp
+The
 .Nm
 utility encrypts a key and salt which it reads from the standard input
 and writes the result to the standard output.