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diff --git a/PLC/Auth.py b/PLC/Auth.py
index 9fea3e3..b11e855 100644
--- a/PLC/Auth.py
+++ b/PLC/Auth.py
@@ -256,7 +256,8 @@ class BootAuth(Auth):
 
             # We encode in UTF-8 before calculating the HMAC, which is
             # an 8-bit algorithm.
-            digest = hmac.new(key, msg.encode('utf-8'), sha).hexdigest()
+            # python 2.6 insists on receiving a 'str' as opposed to a 'unicode'
+            digest = hmac.new(str(key), msg.encode('utf-8'), sha).hexdigest()
 
             if digest != auth['value']:
                 raise PLCAuthenticationFailure, "Call could not be authenticated"