diff --git a/core/Benchmarks/Benchmarks.hs b/core/Benchmarks/Benchmarks.hs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6361812
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/Benchmarks/Benchmarks.hs
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+module Main where
+
+import Connection
+import Criterion.Main
+
+--newPairContext pipe (cParams, sParams) = do
+
+main = defaultMain []
diff --git a/core/tls.cabal b/core/tls.cabal
index e253ffb..94fe7d7 100644
--- a/core/tls.cabal
+++ b/core/tls.cabal
@@ -101,6 +101,22 @@ Test-Suite test-tls
                    , crypto-random-api
   ghc-options:       -Wall -fno-warn-orphans -fno-warn-missing-signatures
 
+Benchmark bench-tls
+  hs-source-dirs:    Benchmarks Tests
+  Main-Is:           Benchmarks.hs
+  type:              exitcode-stdio-1.0
+  Build-depends:     base >= 4 && < 5
+                   , tls
+                   , x509
+                   , crypto-random-api
+                   , criterion
+                   , cprng-aes
+                   , mtl
+                   , bytestring
+                   , crypto-pubkey
+                   , time
+                   , QuickCheck >= 2
+
 source-repository head
   type: git
   location: git://github.com/vincenthz/hs-tls