Swift

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. Swift

func chilkatTest() {
    // 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..
    let prng = CkoPrng()!

    var saltHex: String? = prng.genRandom(numBytes: 16, encoding: "hex")
    print("16-byte salt as hex: \(saltHex!)")

    var saltBase64: String? = prng.genRandom(numBytes: 16, encoding: "base64")
    print("16-byte salt as base64: \(saltBase64!)")

}