diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 'use strict'
+var Buffer = require('buffer').Buffer
 var inherits = require('inherits')
 var HashBase = require('hash-base')
Explicitly require 'buffer'

This seems to help some enviroments to pull in
the 'buffer' module from npm when needed.