diff --git a/peer_serde.go b/peer_serde.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3339f8b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/peer_serde.go
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+// This file contains Protobuf and JSON serialization/deserialization methods for peer IDs.
+package peer
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+
+	"github.com/golang/protobuf/proto"
+)
+
+var _ proto.Marshaler = (*ID)(nil)
+var _ proto.Unmarshaler = (*ID)(nil)
+var _ json.Marshaler = (*ID)(nil)
+var _ proto.Unmarshaler = (*ID)(nil)
+
+func (id ID) Marshal() ([]byte, error) {
+	return []byte(id), nil
+}
+
+func (id ID) MarshalTo(data []byte) (n int, err error) {
+	return copy(data, []byte(id)), nil
+}
+
+func (id *ID) Unmarshal(data []byte) (err error) {
+	*id, err = IDFromBytes(data)
+	return err
+}
+
+func (id ID) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
+	return json.Marshal(IDB58Encode(id))
+}
+
+func (id *ID) UnmarshalJSON(data []byte) (err error) {
+	var v string
+	if err = json.Unmarshal(data, &v); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	*id, err = IDB58Decode(v)
+	return err
+}
diff --git a/peer_serde_test.go b/peer_serde_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fe8cc0c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/peer_serde_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+package peer_test
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-peer"
+	"github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-peer/test"
+)
+
+func TestPeerSerdePB(t *testing.T) {
+	id, err := testutil.RandPeerID()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	b, err := id.Marshal()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	var id2 peer.ID
+	if err = id2.Unmarshal(b); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if id != id2 {
+		t.Error("expected equal ids in circular serde test")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestPeerSerdeJSON(t *testing.T) {
+	id, err := testutil.RandPeerID()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	b, err := id.MarshalJSON()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	var id2 peer.ID
+	if err = id2.UnmarshalJSON(b); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if id != id2 {
+		t.Error("expected equal ids in circular serde test")
+	}
+}