diff --git a/Sources/App/DeviceManager.swift b/Sources/App/DeviceManager.swift
index acea6fa..b2659d3 100644
--- a/Sources/App/DeviceManager.swift
+++ b/Sources/App/DeviceManager.swift
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ final class DeviceManager {
     private var connection: WebSocket?
 
     /// The authentication token of the device for the socket connection
-    private let deviceKey: String
+    private let deviceKey: Data
 
     /// The authentication token of the remote
     private let remoteKey: Data
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ final class DeviceManager {
     /// A promise to finish the request once the device responds or times out
     private var requestInProgress: EventLoopPromise<DeviceResponse>?
     
-    init(deviceKey: String, remoteKey: Data) {
+    init(deviceKey: Data, remoteKey: Data) {
         self.deviceKey = deviceKey
         self.remoteKey = remoteKey
     }
@@ -57,8 +57,9 @@ final class DeviceManager {
         return requestInProgress!.futureResult
     }
     
-    func authenticateDevice(psk: String) {
-        guard psk == self.deviceKey else {
+    func authenticateDevice(hash: String) {
+        guard let key = Data(fromHexEncodedString: hash),
+              SHA256.hash(data: key) == self.deviceKey else {
             print("Invalid device key")
             _ = connection?.close()
             deviceIsAuthenticated = false
diff --git a/Sources/App/configure.swift b/Sources/App/configure.swift
index 862fd3a..60af647 100755
--- a/Sources/App/configure.swift
+++ b/Sources/App/configure.swift
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ var deviceManager: DeviceManager!
 
 enum ServerError: Error {
     case invalidAuthenticationFileContent
-    case invalidRemoteAuthenticationToken
+    case invalidAuthenticationToken
 }
 
 // configures your application
@@ -13,20 +13,24 @@ public func configure(_ app: Application) throws {
     
     let storageFolder = URL(fileURLWithPath: app.directory.resourcesDirectory)
     let keyFile = storageFolder.appendingPathComponent(Config.keyFileName)
-    let authContent = try String(contentsOf: keyFile)
+    let authContent: [Data] = try String(contentsOf: keyFile)
         .trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines)
         .components(separatedBy: "\n")
         .map { $0.trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines) }
+        .map {
+            guard let key = Data(fromHexEncodedString: $0) else {
+                throw ServerError.invalidAuthenticationToken
+            }
+            guard key.count == SHA256.byteCount else {
+                throw ServerError.invalidAuthenticationToken
+            }
+            return key
+        }
     guard authContent.count == 2 else {
         throw ServerError.invalidAuthenticationFileContent
     }
     let deviceKey = authContent[0]
-    guard let remoteKey = Data(fromHexEncodedString: authContent[1]) else {
-        throw ServerError.invalidRemoteAuthenticationToken
-    }
-    guard remoteKey.count == SHA256.byteCount else {
-        throw ServerError.invalidRemoteAuthenticationToken
-    }
+    let remoteKey = authContent[1]
     deviceManager = DeviceManager(deviceKey: deviceKey, remoteKey: remoteKey)
     try routes(app)
     
diff --git a/Sources/App/routes.swift b/Sources/App/routes.swift
index 9d16107..0c5531c 100755
--- a/Sources/App/routes.swift
+++ b/Sources/App/routes.swift
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ func routes(_ app: Application) throws {
             deviceManager.processDeviceResponse(data)
         }
         socket.onText { _, text in
-            deviceManager.authenticateDevice(psk: text)
+            deviceManager.authenticateDevice(hash: text)
         }
         
         _ = socket.onClose.always { _ in