diff --git a/gssapi/raw/oids.pyx b/gssapi/raw/oids.pyx
index a92d25b6..cd54d90f 100644
--- a/gssapi/raw/oids.pyx
+++ b/gssapi/raw/oids.pyx
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 GSSAPI="BASE"  # This ensures that a full module is generated by Cython
 
+import six
+
 from libc.string cimport memcmp, memcpy
 from libc.stdlib cimport free, malloc
 
@@ -61,6 +63,54 @@ cdef class OID:
         memcpy(self.raw_oid.elements, byte_str, self.raw_oid.length)
         return 0
 
+    @classmethod
+    def from_int_seq(cls, integer_sequence):
+        """Create a OID from a sequence of integers
+
+        This method creates an OID from a sequence of integers.
+        The sequence can either be in dotted form as a string,
+        or in list form.
+
+        This method is not for BER-encoded byte strings, which
+        can be passed directly to the OID constructor.
+
+        Args:
+            integer_sequence: either a list of integers or
+                a string in dotted form
+
+        Returns:
+            OID: the OID represented by the given integer sequence
+
+        Raises:
+            ValueError: the sequence is less than two elements long
+        """
+
+        if isinstance(integer_sequence, six.string_types):
+            integer_sequence = integer_sequence.split('.')
+
+        oid_seq = [int(x) for x in integer_sequence]
+
+        elements = cls._encode_asn1ber(oid_seq)
+
+        return cls(elements=elements)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _encode_asn1ber(oid_seq):
+        if len(oid_seq) < 2:
+            raise ValueError("Sequence must be 2 or more elements long.")
+
+        byte_seq = bytearray([oid_seq[0] * 40 + oid_seq[1]])
+        for element in oid_seq[2:]:
+            element_seq = [element & 0x7f]
+
+            while element > 127:
+                element >>= 7
+                element_seq.insert(0, (element & 0x7f) | 0x80)
+
+            byte_seq.extend(element_seq)
+
+        return bytes(byte_seq)
+
     def __dealloc__(self):
         # NB(directxman12): MIT Kerberos has gss_release_oid
         #                   for this purpose, but it's not in the RFC
@@ -70,8 +120,33 @@ cdef class OID:
     def __bytes__(self):
         return (<char*>self.raw_oid.elements)[:self.raw_oid.length]
 
+    def _decode_asn1ber(self):
+        ber_encoding = self.__bytes__()
+        # NB(directxman12): indexing a byte string yields an int in Python 3,
+        #                   but yields a substring in Python 2
+        if six.PY2:
+            ber_encoding = [ord(c) for c in ber_encoding]
+
+        decoded = [ber_encoding[0] // 40, ber_encoding[0] % 40]
+        pos = 1
+        value = 0
+        while pos < len(ber_encoding):
+            byte = ber_encoding[pos]
+            if byte & 0x80:
+                # This is one of the leading bytes
+                value <<= 7
+                value += ((byte & 0x7f) * 128)
+            else:
+                # This is the last byte of this value
+                value += (byte & 0x7f)
+                decoded.append(value)
+                value = 0
+            pos += 1
+        return decoded
+
     def __repr__(self):
-        return "<OID {0}>".format([ord(c) for c in self.__bytes__()])
+        dotted_oid = '.'.join(str(x) for x in self._decode_asn1ber())
+        return "<OID {0}>".format(dotted_oid)
 
     def __hash__(self):
         return hash(self.__bytes__())
diff --git a/gssapi/tests/test_raw.py b/gssapi/tests/test_raw.py
index 92c4d4ce..174f74c7 100644
--- a/gssapi/tests/test_raw.py
+++ b/gssapi/tests/test_raw.py
@@ -780,3 +780,34 @@ def test_basic_wrap_unwrap(self):
         unwrapped_message.should_be_a(bytes)
         unwrapped_message.shouldnt_be_empty()
         unwrapped_message.should_be(b'test message')
+
+
+TEST_OIDS = {'SPNEGO': {'bytes': b'\053\006\001\005\005\002',
+                        'string': '1.3.6.1.5.5.2'},
+             'KRB5': {'bytes': b'\052\206\110\206\367\022\001\002\002',
+                      'string': '1.2.840.113554.1.2.2'},
+             'KRB5_OLD': {'bytes': b'\053\005\001\005\002',
+                          'string': '1.3.5.1.5.2'},
+             'KRB5_WRONG': {'bytes': b'\052\206\110\202\367\022\001\002\002',
+                            'string': '1.2.840.48018.1.2.2'},
+             'IAKERB': {'bytes': b'\053\006\001\005\002\005',
+                        'string': '1.3.6.1.5.2.5'}}
+
+
+class TestOIDTransforms(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_decode_from_bytes(self):
+        for oid in TEST_OIDS.values():
+            o = gb.OID(elements=oid['bytes'])
+            text = repr(o)
+            text.should_be("<OID {0}>".format(oid['string']))
+
+    def test_encode_from_string(self):
+        for oid in TEST_OIDS.values():
+            o = gb.OID.from_int_seq(oid['string'])
+            o.__bytes__().should_be(oid['bytes'])
+
+    def test_encode_from_int_seq(self):
+        for oid in TEST_OIDS.values():
+            int_seq = oid['string'].split('.')
+            o = gb.OID.from_int_seq(int_seq)
+            o.__bytes__().should_be(oid['bytes'])
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b9d91144..558dcb18 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -194,7 +194,8 @@ def gssapi_modules(lst):
     keywords=['gssapi', 'security'],
     install_requires=[
         'enum34',
-        'decorator'
+        'decorator',
+        'six'
     ],
     tests_require=[
         'tox'