C#

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. C#

// 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..
Chilkat.Prng prng = new Chilkat.Prng();

string saltHex = prng.GenRandom(16,"hex");
Debug.WriteLine("16-byte salt as hex: " + saltHex);

string saltBase64 = prng.GenRandom(16,"base64");
Debug.WriteLine("16-byte salt as base64: " + saltBase64);