diff --git a/types/ssdeep/index.d.ts b/types/ssdeep/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for ssdeep 0.1
+// Project: https://github.com/pchaigno/node-ssdeep
+// Definitions by: Arne Schubert <https://github.com/atd-schubert>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+
+export function compare(hash1: string, hash2: string): number;
+
+export function hash(content: string): string;
+
+export function hash_from_file(path: string): string;
diff --git a/types/ssdeep/ssdeep-tests.ts b/types/ssdeep/ssdeep-tests.ts
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+import { compare, hash, hash_from_file } from 'ssdeep';
+
+let str = 'string';
+let num = 123;
+
+num = compare(str, str);
+str = hash(str);
+str = hash_from_file(str);
diff --git a/types/ssdeep/tsconfig.json b/types/ssdeep/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "ssdeep-tests.ts"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/types/ssdeep/tslint.json b/types/ssdeep/tslint.json
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+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }