diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 289faa6..24523b3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+* 0.6.2
+	- Enable signing of binary message
+* 0.6.1
+	- Avoid padding of addresses missing one nibble
+* 0.6.0
+	- Upgrade confini
 * 0.5.4
 	- Add message signer cli
 	- Add pbkdf2 support
diff --git a/funga/eth/encoding.py b/funga/eth/encoding.py
index db69a21..cd20086 100644
--- a/funga/eth/encoding.py
+++ b/funga/eth/encoding.py
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ def private_key_to_address(pk, result_format='hex'):
 
 def is_address(address_hex):
     try:
-        address_hex = strip_0x(address_hex)    
+        address_hex = strip_0x(address_hex, pad=False)
     except ValueError:
         return False
     return len(address_hex) == 40
@@ -57,10 +57,10 @@ def is_checksum_address(address_hex):
 
 
 def to_checksum_address(address_hex):
-        address_hex = strip_0x(address_hex)
-        address_hex = uniform(address_hex)
+        address_hex = strip_0x(address_hex, pad=False)
         if len(address_hex) != 40:
             raise ValueError('Invalid address length')
+        address_hex = uniform(address_hex)
         h = sha3.keccak_256()
         h.update(address_hex.encode('utf-8'))
         z = h.digest()
diff --git a/funga/eth/runnable/msg.py b/funga/eth/runnable/msg.py
index 279a9be..9495b6a 100644
--- a/funga/eth/runnable/msg.py
+++ b/funga/eth/runnable/msg.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ argparser.add_argument('-f', type=str, help='Keyfile to use for signing')
 argparser.add_argument('-z', action='store_true', help='zero-length password')
 argparser.add_argument('-v', action='store_true', help='be verbose')
 argparser.add_argument('-0', dest='nonl', action='store_true', help='no newline at end of output')
+argparser.add_argument('-b', '--binary', dest='binary', action='store_true', help='parse input as binary hex')
 argparser.add_argument('msg', type=str, help='Message to sign')
 args = argparser.parse_args()
 
@@ -42,7 +43,14 @@ def main():
     address = keystore.import_keystore_file(args.f, password=passphrase)
 
     signer = EIP155Signer(keystore)
-    sig = signer.sign_ethereum_message(address, args.msg.encode('utf-8').hex(), password=passphrase)
+
+    msg = None
+    if args.binary:
+        hx = strip_0x(args.msg, pad=True)
+        msg = bytes.fromhex(hx)
+    else:
+        msg = args.msg.encode('utf-8').hex()
+    sig = signer.sign_ethereum_message(address, msg, password=passphrase)
 
     r = sig.hex()
     if not args.nonl:
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index a3088d1..86cd93e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ pysha3==1.0.2
 rlp==2.0.1
 #rlp==3.0.0
 json-rpc==1.13.0
-confini~=0.5.1
+confini~=0.6.0
 coincurve==15.0.0
-hexathon~=0.1.0
+hexathon~=0.1.6
 pycryptodome==3.10.1
 funga==0.5.2
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f2f917d..7cabe82 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ f.close()
 
 setup(
         name="funga-eth",
-        version="0.5.6",
+        version="0.6.2",
         description="Ethereum implementation of the funga keystore and signer",
         author="Louis Holbrook",
         author_email="dev@holbrook.no",