`secrets.compare_digest()` needs to take `bytes` or a `str` that only contains ASCII characters (the ones in English), this means it wouldn't work with characters like `á`, as in `Sebastián`.

To handle that, we first convert the `username` and `password` to `bytes` encoding them with UTF-8.

    /*
     * Any of the setException() calls below can fail if the output Future is cancelled between now
     * and then. This means that we're silently swallowing an exception -- maybe even an Error. But
     * this is no worse than what FutureTask does in that situation. Additionally, because the
     * Future was cancelled, its listeners have been run, so its consumers will not hang.
     *

        // Create thread pools
        this.channelExecutor = Executors.newCachedThreadPool(r -> {
            Thread t = new Thread(r, "SMB3-MultiChannel-Worker");
            t.setDaemon(true);
            return t;
        });

        this.healthCheckExecutor = Executors.newScheduledThreadPool(2, r -> {

      if (USE_LEGACY_SERIALIZATION) {
        Object[] keys = new Object[map.size()];
        Object[] values = new Object[map.size()];
        int i = 0;
        // "extends Object" works around https://github.com/typetools/checker-framework/issues/3013
        for (Entry<? extends Object, ? extends Object> entry : map.entrySet()) {
          keys[i] = entry.getKey();
          values[i] = entry.getValue();

    /*
     * No mutable Table exactly matches the insertion order behavior of ImmutableTable.Builder, but
     * the Builder can't efficiently support merging of duplicate values.  Getting around this
     * requires some work.
     */

    return Collector.of(
        ImmutableTableCollectorState<R, C, V>::new,
        (state, input) ->
            state.put(
                rowFunction.apply(input),

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