(VBScript) Generate Salt in Hex or Base64 Format

Demonstrates how to generate a cryptographic salt value and get the result as hex or base64.

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Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

' 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..
' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.Prng")
set prng = CreateObject("Chilkat.Prng")

saltHex = prng.GenRandom(16,"hex")
outFile.WriteLine("16-byte salt as hex: " & saltHex)

saltBase64 = prng.GenRandom(16,"base64")
outFile.WriteLine("16-byte salt as base64: " & saltBase64)

outFile.Close