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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. B4X

'  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 ChilkatPrng
prng.Initialize

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

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