VB.NET

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. VB.NET

' 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..
Dim prng As New Chilkat.Prng

Dim saltHex As String = prng.GenRandom(16,"hex")
Debug.WriteLine("16-byte salt as hex: " & saltHex)

Dim saltBase64 As String = prng.GenRandom(16,"base64")
Debug.WriteLine("16-byte salt as base64: " & saltBase64)