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-rw-r--r--synapse/handlers/auth.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/handlers/auth.py b/synapse/handlers/auth.py
index 3635521230..3851b35889 100644
--- a/synapse/handlers/auth.py
+++ b/synapse/handlers/auth.py
@@ -653,7 +653,7 @@ class AuthHandler(BaseHandler):
         Returns:
             Hashed password (str).
         """
-        return bcrypt.hashpw(password + self.hs.config.password_pepper,
+        return bcrypt.hashpw(password.encode('utf8') + self.hs.config.password_pepper,
                              bcrypt.gensalt(self.bcrypt_rounds))
 
     def validate_hash(self, password, stored_hash):