diff --git a/TShockAPI/Tools.cs b/TShockAPI/Tools.cs
index 0f815d70..babbf516 100755
--- a/TShockAPI/Tools.cs
+++ b/TShockAPI/Tools.cs
@@ -653,13 +653,14 @@ namespace TShockAPI
         {
             byte[] data = StrToByteArray(password);
             byte[] result;
-
+            byte[] final;
             using (SHA256 shaM = new SHA256Managed())
             {
                 result = shaM.ComputeHash(data);
             }
             System.Text.UTF8Encoding enc = new System.Text.UTF8Encoding();
-            return enc.GetString(result);
+            final = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(enc.GetString(result));
+            return BitConverter.ToString(final);
         }
     }
 }
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