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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. AutoIt

; 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..
$oPrng = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Prng")

Local $saltHex = $oPrng.GenRandom(16,"hex")
ConsoleWrite("16-byte salt as hex: " & $saltHex & @CRLF)

Local $saltBase64 = $oPrng.GenRandom(16,"base64")
ConsoleWrite("16-byte salt as base64: " & $saltBase64 & @CRLF)