Java

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. Chilkat2 Java

import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.Prng;

public class ChilkatExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // 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..
        Prng prng = new Prng();

        String saltHex = prng.genRandom(16, "hex");
        System.out.println("16-byte salt as hex: " + saltHex);

        String saltBase64 = prng.genRandom(16, "base64");
        System.out.println("16-byte salt as base64: " + saltBase64);
    }
}