From f253235c968534378ea2e8ef1b07c4f9815fd382 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: meejah <meejah@meejah.ca>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 11:41:46 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] the IV is bytes

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

diff --git a/src/allmydata/crypto/aes.py b/src/allmydata/crypto/aes.py
index dd496e6bd..a2ab36927 100644
--- a/src/allmydata/crypto/aes.py
+++ b/src/allmydata/crypto/aes.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.ciphers import (
 )
 
 
-DEFAULT_IV = '\x00' * 16
+DEFAULT_IV = b'\x00' * 16
 
 
 def create_encryptor(key, iv=None):