I asked upstream about this, as well: https://github.com/jaraco/keyrings.alt/issues/23, and they confirmed that set_password expects a unicode string, not a base64 encoded string.
I asked upstream about this, as well: https:/ /github. com/jaraco/ keyrings. alt/issues/ 23, and they confirmed that set_password expects a unicode string, not a base64 encoded string.