diff --git a/system/aespipe/aespipe.SlackBuild b/system/aespipe/aespipe.SlackBuild
index b00abd4b15..dde58683f9 100644
--- a/system/aespipe/aespipe.SlackBuild
+++ b/system/aespipe/aespipe.SlackBuild
@@ -23,13 +23,17 @@
 #   OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 #   SUCH DAMAGE.
 #
-# markus reichelt, slackbuilds@mareichelt.de, 0xCCEEF115
+# markus reichelt, (email removed)
+
+# 20230709 bkw: BUILD=2
+# - new maintainer.
+# - include bz2aespipe in package.
 
 cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
 
 PRGNAM=aespipe
 VERSION=${VERSION:-2.4f}
-BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
+BUILD=${BUILD:-2}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 PKGTYPE=${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
 
@@ -43,9 +47,6 @@ if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
   esac
 fi
 
-# If the variable PRINT_PACKAGE_NAME is set, then this script will report what
-# the name of the created package would be, and then exit. This information
-# could be useful to other scripts.
 if [ ! -z "${PRINT_PACKAGE_NAME}" ]; then
   echo "$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.$PKGTYPE"
   exit 0
@@ -55,24 +56,25 @@ TMP=${TMP:-/tmp/SBo}
 PKG=$TMP/package-$PRGNAM
 OUTPUT=${OUTPUT:-/tmp}
 
+OPT="--enable-padlock --enable-intelaes"
+
 if [ "$ARCH" = "i586" ]; then
   SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i586 -mtune=i686"
-  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
-  OPT="--enable-asm=x86 --enable-padlock --enable-intelaes"
+  OPT+=" --enable-asm=x86"
 elif [ "$ARCH" = "i686" ]; then
   SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -mtune=i686"
-  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
-  OPT="--enable-asm=x86 --enable-padlock --enable-intelaes"
+  OPT+=" --enable-asm=x86"
 elif [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
   SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC"
-  LIBDIRSUFFIX="64"
-  OPT="--enable-asm=amd64 --enable-padlock --enable-intelaes"
+  OPT+=" --enable-asm=amd64"
+elif [ "$ARCH" = "aarch64" ]; then # hope this is correct
+  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC"
 else
   SLKCFLAGS="-O2"
-  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
-  OPT=""
 fi
 
+echo "===> configure options: $OPT"
+
 set -e
 
 rm -rf $PKG
@@ -82,11 +84,8 @@ rm -rf $PRGNAM-$SRCVER
 tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$SRCVER.tar.bz2
 cd $PRGNAM-$SRCVER
 chown -R root:root .
-find -L . \
- \( -perm 777 -o -perm 775 -o -perm 750 -o -perm 711 -o -perm 555 \
-  -o -perm 511 \) -exec chmod 755 {} \; -o \
- \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 640 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 \
-  -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) -exec chmod 644 {} \;
+find -L .  -perm /111 -a \! -perm 755 -a -exec chmod 755 {} + -o \
+        \! -perm /111 -a \! -perm 644 -a -exec chmod 644 {} +
 
 set -e
 
@@ -101,18 +100,17 @@ fi
 LDFLAGS=$LDFLAGS \
 CFLAGS=$SLKCFLAGS \
 ./configure \
-  --bindir=$PKG/usr/bin \
-  --mandir=$PKG/usr/man \
+  --bindir=/usr/bin \
+  --mandir=/usr/man \
   $OPT
 
 make
 make tests
-make install
+make install-strip DESTDIR=$PKG
+gzip -9 $PKG/usr/man/man*/*
 
-find $PKG -print0 | xargs -0 file | grep -e "executable" -e "shared object" | grep ELF \
-  | cut -f 1 -d : | xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || true
-
-find $PKG/usr/man/man1 -type f -exec gzip -9 {} \;
+# 20230709 bkw: this loox useful and the README shows an example for it:
+cp -a bz2aespipe $PKG/usr/bin
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
 cp -a README* ChangeLog* $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
diff --git a/system/aespipe/aespipe.info b/system/aespipe/aespipe.info
index a2ae6076d8..34ee3013fd 100644
--- a/system/aespipe/aespipe.info
+++ b/system/aespipe/aespipe.info
@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@ MD5SUM="ed05c62c1954110f009bedda4bc1562f"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES=""
-MAINTAINER="Markus Reichelt"
-EMAIL="slackbuilds@mareichelt.de"
+MAINTAINER="B. Watson"
+EMAIL="urchlay@slackware.uk"