diff --git a/AUTHORS.rst b/AUTHORS.rst
index e01a2a13e..fe69dba62 100644
--- a/AUTHORS.rst
+++ b/AUTHORS.rst
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ The following wonderful people contributed directly or indirectly to this projec
 - `Vorobjev Simon <https://github.com/simonvorobjev>`_
 - `Wagner Macedo <https://github.com/wagnerluis1982>`_
 - `wjt <https://github.com/wjt>`_
+- `Wonseok Oh <https://github.com/marinelay>`_
 - `Yaw Danso <https://github.com/dglitxh>`_
 - `Yao Kuan <https://github.com/thatguylah>`_
 - `zeroone2numeral2 <https://github.com/zeroone2numeral2>`_
diff --git a/telegram/_passport/credentials.py b/telegram/_passport/credentials.py
index bc48077b5..525dd473e 100644
--- a/telegram/_passport/credentials.py
+++ b/telegram/_passport/credentials.py
@@ -153,15 +153,15 @@ class EncryptedCredentials(TelegramObject):
 
         self._id_attrs = (self.data, self.hash, self.secret)
 
-        self._decrypted_secret: Optional[str] = None
+        self._decrypted_secret: Optional[bytes] = None
         self._decrypted_data: Optional[Credentials] = None
 
         self._freeze()
 
     @property
-    def decrypted_secret(self) -> str:
+    def decrypted_secret(self) -> bytes:
         """
-        :obj:`str`: Lazily decrypt and return secret.
+        :obj:`bytes`: Lazily decrypt and return secret.
 
         Raises:
             telegram.error.PassportDecryptionError: Decryption failed. Usually due to bad