Generates a random salt value (a series of
8 bytes) to use in generating an encryption key, and returns the
salt value as a RAW value. Using a salt value can help to ensure
that a password key value is unique.
Notes
- This
salt value is combined with a password value and hashed some number
of times to generate a password-based encryption key (using the
algorithm specified by the PBE-HASH-ALGORITHM attribute and the
number of iterations specified by the PBE-KEY-ROUNDS attribute).
- You are responsible for generating, storing, and transporting
this value.
