diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index f999309..c36de7e 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "ed25519-dalek"
-version = "0.4.1"
+version = "0.4.2"
 authors = ["Isis Lovecruft <isis@torproject.org>"]
 readme = "README.md"
 license = "CC0-1.0"
diff --git a/src/ed25519.rs b/src/ed25519.rs
index d4a88a8..17f1a41 100644
--- a/src/ed25519.rs
+++ b/src/ed25519.rs
@@ -646,4 +646,16 @@ mod bench {
 
         b.iter(| | Keypair::generate::<Sha512>(&mut rng));
     }
+
+    #[bench]
+    fn underlying_scalar_mult_basepoint(b: &mut Bencher) {
+        use curve25519_dalek::constants::ED25519_BASEPOINT_TABLE;
+
+        let scalar: Scalar = Scalar([  20, 130, 129, 196, 247, 182, 211, 102,
+                                       11, 168, 169, 131, 159,  69, 126,  35,
+                                      109, 193, 175,  54, 118, 234, 138,  81,
+                                       60, 183,  80, 186,  92, 248, 132,  13, ]);
+
+        b.iter(| | &scalar * &ED25519_BASEPOINT_TABLE);
+    }
 }