diff --git a/include/rpm/rpmkeyring.h b/include/rpm/rpmkeyring.h
index cfcbe59342..7da8febe84 100644
--- a/include/rpm/rpmkeyring.h
+++ b/include/rpm/rpmkeyring.h
@@ -134,6 +134,15 @@ rpmPubkey rpmPubkeyFree(rpmPubkey key);
  */
 rpmPubkey rpmPubkeyLink(rpmPubkey key);
 
+
+/** \ingroup rpmkeyring
+ * Return pubkey as raw bytes
+ * @param key           Pubkey
+ * @param pkt		key data
+ * @param pktlen	Length of key data
+ */
+void rpmPubkeyRawData(rpmPubkey key, unsigned const char ** pkt, size_t * pktlen);
+
 /** \ingroup rpmkeyring
  * Return base64 encoding of pubkey
  * @param key           Pubkey
diff --git a/rpmio/rpmkeyring.cc b/rpmio/rpmkeyring.cc
index 4b872869c7..4e08e97f76 100644
--- a/rpmio/rpmkeyring.cc
+++ b/rpmio/rpmkeyring.cc
@@ -366,6 +366,17 @@ rpmPubkey rpmPubkeyLink(rpmPubkey key)
     return key;
 }
 
+void rpmPubkeyRawData(rpmPubkey key, unsigned const char ** pkt, size_t * pktlen)
+{
+    if (key) {
+	*pkt = key->pkt.data();
+	*pktlen = key->pkt.size();
+    } else {
+	*pkt = NULL;
+	*pktlen = 0;
+    }
+}
+
 char * rpmPubkeyBase64(rpmPubkey key)
 {
     char *enc = NULL;