Construct HMAC as bytes on py3

Signed-off-by: Adrian Tschira <nota@notafile.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/rest/client/v1/register.py b/synapse/rest/client/v1/register.py

index 8a82097178..9b3022e0b0 100644
--- a/synapse/rest/client/v1/register.py
+++ b/synapse/rest/client/v1/register.py
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ from hashlib import sha1
 import hmac
 import logging
 
+from six import string_types
+
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
@@ -333,11 +335,11 @@ class RegisterRestServlet(ClientV1RestServlet):
     def _do_shared_secret(self, request, register_json, session):
         yield run_on_reactor()
 
-        if not isinstance(register_json.get("mac", None), basestring):
+        if not isinstance(register_json.get("mac", None), string_types):
             raise SynapseError(400, "Expected mac.")
-        if not isinstance(register_json.get("user", None), basestring):
+        if not isinstance(register_json.get("user", None), string_types):
             raise SynapseError(400, "Expected 'user' key.")
-        if not isinstance(register_json.get("password", None), basestring):
+        if not isinstance(register_json.get("password", None), string_types):
             raise SynapseError(400, "Expected 'password' key.")
 
         if not self.hs.config.registration_shared_secret:
@@ -358,14 +360,14 @@ class RegisterRestServlet(ClientV1RestServlet):
         got_mac = str(register_json["mac"])
 
         want_mac = hmac.new(
-            key=self.hs.config.registration_shared_secret,
+            key=self.hs.config.registration_shared_secret.encode(),
             digestmod=sha1,
         )
         want_mac.update(user)
-        want_mac.update("\x00")
+        want_mac.update(b"\x00")
         want_mac.update(password)
-        want_mac.update("\x00")
-        want_mac.update("admin" if admin else "notadmin")
+        want_mac.update(b"\x00")
+        want_mac.update(b"admin" if admin else b"notadmin")
         want_mac = want_mac.hexdigest()
 
         if compare_digest(want_mac, got_mac):