diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 5e074be..b24505c 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -8,18 +8,13 @@ MAKEFLAGS += --no-builtin-rules
 
 main_tex ?= paper
 
-VERSION_STRING := $(shell git describe --tags --long --dirty)
-
 all: ${main_tex}.pdf
 
-%.pdf: %.tex paper.bib version.tex
+%.pdf: %.tex paper.bib
 	pdflatex -shell-escape $<
 	biber $* 
 	pdflatex -shell-escape $<
 
-version.tex: ${main_tex}.tex paper.bib
-	echo "${VERSION_STRING}" > $@
-
 .PHONY: clean
 clean:
 	rm -f ${main_tex}.aux ${main_tex}.bbl ${main_tex}.bcf ${main_tex}.log ${main_tex}.blg
diff --git a/paper.tex b/paper.tex
index 8b88008..5fd4960 100644
--- a/paper.tex
+++ b/paper.tex
@@ -273,14 +273,6 @@ considerably less secure than an average credit card payment terminal. The syste
 attractive and soft target to nation-state adversaries. The system's shortcomings are made more severe by the fact that
 the system disproportionally affects the lives of people with low income.
 
-%\begin{credits}
-%This is version \texttt{\input{version.tex}\unskip} of this paper, generated on \today. The git repository with the
-%\LaTeX source for this paper, all hardware design files, and firmware and analysis source code can be found at:
-
-%\center{Note: URL elided for peer review}
-% \center{\url{https://git.jaseg.de/ihsm-sampling-mesh-monitor-hw.git}}
-%\end{credits}
-
 \printbibliography[heading=bibintoc]
 
 \end{document}