diff --git a/src/main/java/envoy/data/LoginCredentials.java b/src/main/java/envoy/data/LoginCredentials.java
index c7899d6..86b166c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/envoy/data/LoginCredentials.java
+++ b/src/main/java/envoy/data/LoginCredentials.java
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package envoy.data;
 import java.io.Serializable;
 import java.security.MessageDigest;
 import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
+import java.util.Formatter;
 
 /**
  * Project: <strong>envoy-common</strong><br>
@@ -31,6 +32,18 @@ public class LoginCredentials implements Serializable {
 		passwordHash	= getSha256(toByteArray(password));
 	}
 
+	@Override
+	public String toString() {
+		Formatter form = new Formatter();
+		form.format("LoginCredentials[name=%s,passwordHash=", name);
+		for (int i = 0; i < passwordHash.length; i++)
+			form.format("%02x", passwordHash[i]);
+		form.format("]");
+		String str = form.toString();
+		form.close();
+		return str;
+	}
+
 	private byte[] toByteArray(char[] chars) {
 		byte[] bytes = new byte[chars.length * 2];
 		for (int i = 0; i < chars.length; ++i) {
diff --git a/src/main/java/envoy/util/SerializationUtils.java b/src/main/java/envoy/util/SerializationUtils.java
index 3813a00..dfd166b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/envoy/util/SerializationUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/envoy/util/SerializationUtils.java
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
 import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
@@ -34,12 +35,14 @@ public class SerializationUtils {
 	 * @throws EnvoyException if an error occurred during deserialization
 	 * @since Envoy Common v0.2-alpha
 	 */
-	public static <T extends Serializable> T read(File file, Class<T> serializedClass) throws EnvoyException {
+	public static <T extends Serializable> T read(File file, Class<T> serializedClass) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
 		if (file == null) throw new NullPointerException("File is null");
-		try (ObjectInputStream in = new ObjectInputStream(new FileInputStream(file))) {
-			return serializedClass.cast(in.readObject());
-		} catch (ClassNotFoundException | IOException e) {
-			throw new EnvoyException("Could not load serialized object", e);
+		return read(new FileInputStream(file), serializedClass);
+	}
+
+	public static <T extends Serializable> T read(InputStream in, Class<T> serializedClass) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
+		try (ObjectInputStream oin = new ObjectInputStream(in)) {
+			return serializedClass.cast(oin.readObject());
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -80,12 +83,12 @@ public class SerializationUtils {
 		byte[] objBytes = baos.toByteArray();
 
 		// Get length of byte array in bytes
-		byte[] objLen = getBytes(objBytes.length);
+		byte[] objLen = intToBytes(objBytes.length);
 
 		// Write length and byte array
 		out.write(objLen);
 		out.write(objBytes);
 	}
 
-	private static byte[] getBytes(int n) { return new byte[] { (byte) (n >>> 24), (byte) (n >>> 16), (byte) (n >>> 8) }; }
+	private static byte[] intToBytes(int n) { return new byte[] { (byte) (n >>> 24), (byte) (n >>> 16), (byte) (n >>> 8), (byte) n }; }
 }
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