Tcl

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. Tcl

load ./chilkat.dll

# 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..
set prng [new_CkPrng]

set saltHex [CkPrng_genRandom $prng 16 "hex"]
puts "16-byte salt as hex: $saltHex"

set saltBase64 [CkPrng_genRandom $prng 16 "base64"]
puts "16-byte salt as base64: $saltBase64"

delete_CkPrng $prng