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-rw-r--r--synapse/api/urls.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/api/urls.py b/synapse/api/urls.py
index 71347912f1..6d9f1ca0ef 100644
--- a/synapse/api/urls.py
+++ b/synapse/api/urls.py
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ class ConsentURIBuilder(object):
         """
         mac = hmac.new(
             key=self._hmac_secret,
-            msg=user_id,
+            msg=user_id.encode('ascii'),
             digestmod=sha256,
         ).hexdigest()
         consent_uri = "%s_matrix/consent?%s" % (