Ruby

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. Ruby

require '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 + "\n";

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