diff --git a/src/handshake.ts b/src/handshake.ts
index 88eaaeb..cb76381 100644
--- a/src/handshake.ts
+++ b/src/handshake.ts
@@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ import { KeyPair, PeerId } from "./@types/libp2p";
 import {
   createHandshakePayload,
   getHandshakePayload,
-  logger,
   signEarlyDataPayload,
   signPayload,
   verifySignedPayload,
 } from "./utils";
+import { logger } from "./logger";
 import { decodeMessageBuffer, encodeMessageBuffer } from "./encoder";
 import { WrappedConnection } from "./noise";
 
diff --git a/src/logger.ts b/src/logger.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..150e061
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/logger.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+import debug from "debug";
+export const logger = debug('libp2p:noise');
diff --git a/src/utils.ts b/src/utils.ts
index 8e8faf6..65b7939 100644
--- a/src/utils.ts
+++ b/src/utils.ts
@@ -1,15 +1,12 @@
 import { x25519, ed25519 } from 'bcrypto';
 import protobuf from "protobufjs";
 import { Buffer } from "buffer";
-import debug from "debug";
 import PeerId from "peer-id";
 import * as crypto from 'libp2p-crypto';
 
 import { KeyPair } from "./@types/libp2p";
 import { bytes } from "./@types/basic";
 
-export const logger = debug('libp2p:noise');
-
 export async function loadPayloadProto () {
   const payloadProtoBuf = await protobuf.load("protos/payload.proto");
   return payloadProtoBuf.lookupType("pb.NoiseHandshakePayload");