Visual FoxPro

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. Visual FoxPro

LOCAL loPrng
LOCAL lcSaltHex
LOCAL lcSaltBase64

* 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..
loPrng = CreateObject('Chilkat.Prng')

lcSaltHex = loPrng.GenRandom(16,"hex")
? "16-byte salt as hex: " + lcSaltHex

lcSaltBase64 = loPrng.GenRandom(16,"base64")
? "16-byte salt as base64: " + lcSaltBase64

RELEASE loPrng