diff --git a/Data/SecureMem.hs b/Data/SecureMem.hs
--- a/Data/SecureMem.hs
+++ b/Data/SecureMem.hs
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
     , withSecureMemCopy
     -- * convertion
     , secureMemFromByteString
+    , secureMemFromByteable
     ) where
 
 import Foreign.C.Types
diff --git a/securemem.cabal b/securemem.cabal
--- a/securemem.cabal
+++ b/securemem.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:                securemem
-Version:             0.1.6
+Version:             0.1.7
 Synopsis:            abstraction to an auto scrubbing and const time eq, memory chunk.
 Description:
     SecureMem is similar to ByteString, except that it provides a memory chunk that