so my raw key is in a file named key

and my config looks like:

from base64 import b64encode
with open("key", "rb") as keyfile:
    key = b64encode(keyfile.read())

db_config = {
    'user': 'downgoat',
    'password': key,
    'host': '72.48.166.68',
    'port': 3306,
    'database': 'ppcg'
}

but it gives me 'access denied' for some reaosn

nope, it has the same checksum

yeah

weird still not working

> Access denied for user 'downgoat'@'c-73-189-52-223.hsd1.ca.comcast.net' (using password: YES)

yeah still :(

is the password same for redis?

@Mego yeah, it is ready to merge

I'm using this as the redis config but it gives me a 'invalid password' redis exception

redis_config = {
    'host': '72.48.166.68',
    'password': key,
    'port': 6379,
    'db': 0
}

@Mego a couple of suggestions: 1) Make answers use spoiler formatting except for the language and the length, so that people can continue to work on their answer without having other answers distract/affect them. 2) (Maybe not the best idea, but...) Allow the challenge author to limit competing answers to certain languages, such as Python, Ruby, C etc.

@Mego is it this:

oh :|

@Mego and is the password the base64 of the resultant key?

I get a binary string, putting that in directly 'password': b'foo' and it gives my the same redis.exceptions.ResponseError: invalid password, should I .encode it?

it has some unprintablnes like \x8e

yeah, it is the raw, un-base64'd key

checksum of key seems to match what I sent you too

Oh :|

@Mego yes, I was able to :D