Use latin-1 encoding when converting hmac secret to bytes

* wqflask/utility/hmac.py (hmac_creation): Use latin-1 when
serializing the hmac secret. This ensures that the behaviour
of *verify_cookie* remains the same as in the python2 tip.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/wqflask/utility/hmac.py b/wqflask/utility/hmac.py
index 6623f69a..29891677 100644
--- a/wqflask/utility/hmac.py
+++ b/wqflask/utility/hmac.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ def hmac_creation(stringy):
     """Helper function to create the actual hmac"""
 
     secret = app.config['SECRET_HMAC_CODE']
-    hmaced = hmac.new(bytearray(secret, "utf-8"),
+    hmaced = hmac.new(bytearray(secret, "latin-1"),
                       bytearray(stringy, "utf-8"),
                       hashlib.sha1)
     hm = hmaced.hexdigest()