From ad027aff7656abc098539f4159fa30638581ad35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: meejah <meejah@meejah.ca>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 00:34:47 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] compare bytes to bytes

---
 src/allmydata/grid_manager.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/allmydata/grid_manager.py b/src/allmydata/grid_manager.py
index f502c413e..d776fb7d0 100644
--- a/src/allmydata/grid_manager.py
+++ b/src/allmydata/grid_manager.py
@@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ def create_grid_manager_verifier(keys, certs, public_key, now_fn=None, bad_cert=
         now = now_fn()
         for cert in valid_certs:
             expires = datetime.utcfromtimestamp(cert['expires'])
-            if cert['public_key'].encode("ascii") == public_key:
+            if cert['public_key'] == public_key:
                 if expires > now:
                     # not-expired
                     return True