diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/nss/nss/signlibs.sh b/meta-oe/recipes-support/nss/nss/signlibs.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index a74e499f8c..0000000000
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/nss/nss/signlibs.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-# signlibs.sh
-#
-# (c)2010 Wind River Systems, Inc.
-#
-# regenerates the .chk files for the NSS libraries that require it
-# since the ones that are built have incorrect checksums that were
-# calculated on the host where they really need to be done on the
-# target
-
-CHK_FILES=`ls /lib*/*.chk /usr/lib*/*.chk 2>/dev/null`
-SIGN_BINARY=`which shlibsign`
-for I in $CHK_FILES
-do
-       DN=`dirname $I`
-       BN=`basename $I .chk`
-       FN=$DN/$BN.so
-       $SIGN_BINARY -i $FN
-done
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/nss/nss_3.56.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/nss/nss_3.56.bb
index 107b0a0152..997f8950fd 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/nss/nss_3.56.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/nss/nss_3.56.bb
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ VERSION_DIR = "${@d.getVar('BP').upper().replace('-', '_').replace('.', '_') + '
 
 SRC_URI = "http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/${VERSION_DIR}/src/${BP}.tar.gz \
            file://nss.pc.in \
-           file://signlibs.sh \
            file://0001-nss-fix-support-cross-compiling.patch \
            file://nss-no-rpath-for-cross-compiling.patch \
            file://nss-fix-incorrect-shebang-of-perl.patch \
@@ -214,7 +213,6 @@ do_install_append() {
         touch ${D}/${libdir}/$file
         chmod 755 ${D}/${libdir}/$file
     done
-    install -D -m 755 ${WORKDIR}/signlibs.sh ${D}/${bindir}/signlibs.sh
 
     install -d ${D}${libdir}/pkgconfig/
     sed 's/%NSS_VERSION%/${PV}/' ${WORKDIR}/nss.pc.in | sed 's/%NSPR_VERSION%/4.9.2/' > ${D}${libdir}/pkgconfig/nss.pc
@@ -251,10 +249,6 @@ pkg_postinst_${PN} () {
     done
 }
 
-pkg_postinst_ontarget_${PN} () {
-    ${bindir}/signlibs.sh
-}
-
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-smime"
 FILES_${PN}-smime = "\
     ${bindir}/smime \