misc.go         | 5 +++++
 torrent_test.go | 8 ++++++++

diff --git a/misc.go b/misc.go
index b96faf06573ea3d19c3e275df9ba7e2f567a5077..6b589e2490c0606fc8283aa781a44729bc1f01c8 100644
--- a/misc.go
+++ b/misc.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 import (
 	"crypto"
 	"errors"
+	"fmt"
 	"math/rand"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
@@ -30,6 +31,10 @@ )
 
 func (ih *InfoHash) AsString() string {
 	return string(ih[:])
+}
+
+func (ih *InfoHash) HexString() string {
+	return fmt.Sprintf("%x", ih[:])
 }
 
 type piece struct {
diff --git a/torrent_test.go b/torrent_test.go
index eedb4beadd8a9274adb31428a41831220327d587..ffe43ca7cdd231848b94325386924ef26a875b91 100644
--- a/torrent_test.go
+++ b/torrent_test.go
@@ -67,3 +67,11 @@ 	if orig[0] != 1 {
 		t.FailNow()
 	}
 }
+
+func TestTorrentString(t *testing.T) {
+	tor := &torrent{}
+	s := tor.InfoHash.HexString()
+	if s != "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000" {
+		t.FailNow()
+	}
+}