diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index 40fe496fd..5f20b8955 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
       <action dev="ggregory"     type="fix" due-to="step-security-bot, Gary Gregory">[StepSecurity] Harden GitHub builds #228, #234.</action>
       <action dev="ggregory"     type="fix" due-to="Martin Wiesner">Fixes grammar and typos in Javadoc #233.</action>
       <action dev="ggregory"     type="fix" due-to="Gary Gregory">Deprecate OpenSslJna.OpenSslJna().</action>      
+      <action dev="ggregory"     type="fix" due-to="Gary Gregory">Deprecate Crypto.Crypto().</action>      
       <!-- UPDATE -->
       <action                    type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="Dependabot, Gary Gregory">Bump commons-parent from 56 to 64 #225.</action>
       <action                    type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">Bump com.sun.xml.bind:jaxb-impl from 2.3.7 to 2.3.8.</action>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/crypto/Crypto.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/crypto/Crypto.java
index 4963b5525..a7f06e173 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/crypto/Crypto.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/crypto/Crypto.java
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ private static Properties getComponentProperties() {
             return versionData;
         }
     }
-
+    
     /**
      * The prefix of all crypto configuration keys.
      */
@@ -183,4 +183,14 @@ public static void main(final String[] args) throws Exception {
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Constructs a new instance.
+     *
+     * @deprecated Will be private in the next major release.
+     */
+    @Deprecated
+    public Crypto() {
+        // empty
+    }
+
 }