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diff --git a/wqflask/utility/hmac.py b/wqflask/utility/hmac.py
index fd75803e..29891677 100644
--- a/wqflask/utility/hmac.py
+++ b/wqflask/utility/hmac.py
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-from __future__ import print_function, division, absolute_import
-
import hmac
import hashlib
@@ -12,7 +10,9 @@ def hmac_creation(stringy):
"""Helper function to create the actual hmac"""
secret = app.config['SECRET_HMAC_CODE']
- hmaced = hmac.new(secret, stringy, hashlib.sha1)
+ hmaced = hmac.new(bytearray(secret, "latin-1"),
+ bytearray(stringy, "utf-8"),
+ hashlib.sha1)
hm = hmaced.hexdigest()
# ZS: Leaving the below comment here to ask Pjotr about
# "Conventional wisdom is that you don't lose much in terms of security if you throw away up to half of the output."