Lua

Generate Salt in Hex or Base64 Format

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Demonstrates how to generate a cryptographic salt value and get the result as hex or base64. Lua

local chilkat = require("chilkat")

-- In cryptography, a salt is random data that is used as an additional input to a one-way function that "hashes" data, a password or passphrase.

-- Let's say we want to generate a 16-byte salt value..
local prng = chilkat.Prng.new()

local saltHex = prng:gen_random(16, "hex")
print("16-byte salt as hex: " .. saltHex)

local saltBase64 = prng:gen_random(16, "base64")
print("16-byte salt as base64: " .. saltBase64)