PHP Extension

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. PHP Extension

<?php

include("chilkat.php");

// 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 = new CkPrng();

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

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

?>