diff --git a/types/bencode/bencode-tests.ts b/types/bencode/bencode-tests.ts
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+import * as bencode from "bencode";
+
+bencode.byteLength("abcde"); // $ExpectType number
+bencode.encodingLength("abcde"); // $ExpectType number
+bencode.encode([1, 2, 3, 4], new Buffer([]), 1); // $ExpectType Buffer
+bencode.decode(new Buffer("abcde"), 1, 3); // $ExpectType any
diff --git a/types/bencode/index.d.ts b/types/bencode/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for bencode 2.0
+// Project: https://github.com/themasch/node-bencode#readme
+// Definitions by: Tobenna <https://github.com/tobenna>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+
+/// <reference types="node" />
+
+export function byteLength(value: any): number;
+export function encodingLength(value: any): number;
+export function encode(data: any, buffer?: Buffer, offset?: number): Buffer;
+export function decode(
+    data: Buffer,
+    start?: number,
+    end?: number,
+    encoding?: string
+): any;
diff --git a/types/bencode/tsconfig.json b/types/bencode/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "bencode-tests.ts"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/types/bencode/tslint.json b/types/bencode/tslint.json
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+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }