Perl

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. Perl

use 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..
$prng = chilkat::CkPrng->new();

$saltHex = $prng->genRandom(16,"hex");
print "16-byte salt as hex: " . $saltHex . "\r\n";

$saltBase64 = $prng->genRandom(16,"base64");
print "16-byte salt as base64: " . $saltBase64 . "\r\n";