def raw(cls, secret, user):
        """encode password using mscash v1 algorithm

        :arg secret: secret as unicode or utf-8 encoded bytes
        :arg user: username to use as salt

        :returns: returns string of raw bytes
        """
        secret = to_unicode(secret, "utf-8", param="secret").encode("utf-16-le")
        user = to_unicode(user, "utf-8", param="user").lower().encode("utf-16-le")
        return md4(md4(secret).digest() + user).digest()