VERSION      | 2 +-
 doc/news.rst | 7 +++++++
 pyderasn.py  | 7 +++++++

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index b009f7c30b47d358b014f374c483415ef17de90969cf8a825a96a86d80cdcf5d..65198f0e020c3efde2027fb0a23186ca71ed98fb9230440020fda4cb6a898225 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.5
+1.6
diff --git a/doc/news.rst b/doc/news.rst
index 0768548abfd3bee20a65ae9fcf4c89cccd2178ebfcc10e1822bd313500a5a951..140c2bc8919b1f39d8ce620d645b6c0b2dee44ed6d0bb3d1551a2f5cb183a5b7 100644
--- a/doc/news.rst
+++ b/doc/news.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
 News
 ====
 
+.. _release1.6:
+
+1.6
+---
+Ability to skip specified number of bytes (``--skip``) in command line
+utility.
+
 .. _release1.5:
 
 1.5
diff --git a/pyderasn.py b/pyderasn.py
index 0e1c5a8a6bd5862170a6e933e3b4c74e7a169c456c98a0e11a352ffd377576c2..6d7d0e9db301b04de14c88b5dc7cd446c806c0c5d2403c861600d0ffbcc071f6 100755
--- a/pyderasn.py
+++ b/pyderasn.py
@@ -4329,6 +4329,12 @@ def main():  # pragma: no cover
     import argparse
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="PyDERASN ASN.1 DER decoder")
     parser.add_argument(
+        "--skip",
+        type=int,
+        default=0,
+        help="Skip that number of bytes from the beginning",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
         "--oids",
         help="Python path to dictionary with OIDs",
     )
@@ -4346,6 +4352,7 @@         type=argparse.FileType("rb"),
         help="Path to DER file you want to decode",
     )
     args = parser.parse_args()
+    args.DERFile.seek(args.skip)
     der = memoryview(args.DERFile.read())
     args.DERFile.close()
     oids = obj_by_path(args.oids) if args.oids else {}