diff --git a/src/chocolatey/infrastructure/filesystem/DotNetFileSystem.cs b/src/chocolatey/infrastructure/filesystem/DotNetFileSystem.cs
index 41cde09571..f2dc91eaec 100644
--- a/src/chocolatey/infrastructure/filesystem/DotNetFileSystem.cs
+++ b/src/chocolatey/infrastructure/filesystem/DotNetFileSystem.cs
@@ -231,6 +231,11 @@ public string read_file(string filePath)
             return File.ReadAllText(filePath, get_file_encoding(filePath));
         }
 
+        public byte[] read_file_bytes(string filePath)
+        {
+            return File.ReadAllBytes(filePath);
+        }
+
         public FileStream open_file_readonly(string filePath)
         {
             return File.OpenRead(filePath);
diff --git a/src/chocolatey/infrastructure/filesystem/IFileSystem.cs b/src/chocolatey/infrastructure/filesystem/IFileSystem.cs
index 1595959418..959a9205c9 100644
--- a/src/chocolatey/infrastructure/filesystem/IFileSystem.cs
+++ b/src/chocolatey/infrastructure/filesystem/IFileSystem.cs
@@ -196,6 +196,13 @@ public interface IFileSystem
         /// <returns>A string of the file contents</returns>
         string read_file(string filePath);
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Returns the contents of a file as bytes.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="filePath">The filepath.</param>
+        /// <returns>A byte array of the file contents</returns>
+        byte[] read_file_bytes(string filePath);
+
         /// <summary>
         ///   Opens a file
         /// </summary>
@@ -330,5 +337,6 @@ public interface IFileSystem
         /// <param name="path">The path.</param>
         /// <param name="attributes">The attributes.</param>
         void ensure_file_attribute_set(string path, FileAttributes attributes);
+
     }
 }
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