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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. Zig

const std = @import("std");
const chilkat = @import("chilkat");

pub fn main(init: std.process.Init) !void {
    const alloc = init.arena.allocator();

    // 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..
    const prng = try chilkat.Prng.init();
    defer prng.deinit();

    const salt_hex = try prng.genRandom(alloc, 16, "hex");
    std.debug.print("16-byte salt as hex: {s}\n", .{salt_hex});

    const salt_base64 = try prng.genRandom(alloc, 16, "base64");
    std.debug.print("16-byte salt as base64: {s}\n", .{salt_base64});
}