diff --git a/ts/00_commitinfo_data.ts b/ts/00_commitinfo_data.ts
index 4bae04f..3f97e88 100644
--- a/ts/00_commitinfo_data.ts
+++ b/ts/00_commitinfo_data.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@
  */
 export const commitinfo = {
   name: '@push.rocks/smartbuffer',
-  version: '3.0.3',
+  version: '3.0.4',
   description: 'A library for managing ArrayBufferLike structures including conversion between Base64 and Uint8Array, and buffer validation.'
 }
diff --git a/ts/index.ts b/ts/index.ts
index 1cb4edd..f711821 100644
--- a/ts/index.ts
+++ b/ts/index.ts
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ export function isBufferLike(obj: any): obj is ArrayBufferLike | Buffer {
   return false;
 }
 
-export function convertBufferToPureUint8Array(bufferArg: Buffer) {
+export function ensurePureUint8Array(bufferArg: Uint8Array | Buffer): Uint8Array {
   // Create a new Uint8Array with the same length as the buffer
   const uint8Array: Uint8Array = new Uint8Array(bufferArg.length);