diff --git a/backend/src/lib/crypto/sign/signing.ts b/backend/src/lib/crypto/sign/signing.ts
index 60fbc8055..7dd71b5f6 100644
--- a/backend/src/lib/crypto/sign/signing.ts
+++ b/backend/src/lib/crypto/sign/signing.ts
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ import path from "path";
 import { promisify } from "util";
 
 import { BadRequestError } from "@app/lib/errors";
+import { cleanTemporaryDirectory, createTemporaryDirectory, writeToTemporaryFile } from "@app/lib/files";
 import { logger } from "@app/lib/logger";
 
-import { cleanTemporaryDirectory, createTemporaryDirectory, writeToTemporaryFile } from "./signing-fns";
 import { AsymmetricKeyAlgorithm, SigningAlgorithm, TAsymmetricSignVerifyFns } from "./types";
 
 const execFileAsync = promisify(execFile);
diff --git a/backend/src/lib/crypto/sign/signing-fns.ts b/backend/src/lib/files/files.ts
similarity index 100%
rename from backend/src/lib/crypto/sign/signing-fns.ts
rename to backend/src/lib/files/files.ts
diff --git a/backend/src/lib/files/index.ts b/backend/src/lib/files/index.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b2cba4b62
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/src/lib/files/index.ts
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+export * from "./files";
diff --git a/backend/src/main.ts b/backend/src/main.ts
index cf5082252..80d98abcf 100644
--- a/backend/src/main.ts
+++ b/backend/src/main.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import { runMigrations } from "./auto-start-migrations";
 import { initAuditLogDbConnection, initDbConnection } from "./db";
 import { keyStoreFactory } from "./keystore/keystore";
 import { formatSmtpConfig, initEnvConfig } from "./lib/config/env";
-import { removeTemporaryBaseDirectory } from "./lib/crypto/sign/signing-fns";
+import { removeTemporaryBaseDirectory } from "./lib/files";
 import { initLogger } from "./lib/logger";
 import { queueServiceFactory } from "./queue";
 import { main } from "./server/app";