Two salt Values?

[chdboy]

I'm getting two values for my salt This is my code

private static String getSalt() throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, NoSuchProviderException
{
SecureRandom sr = SecureRandom.getInstance("SHA1PRNG");
//SecureRandom sr = new SecureRandom();
byte[] salt = new byte[8192];
sr.nextBytes(salt);
return salt.toString();

}

and when I save it in my database my code

PS.setString(1, User);
PS.setString(2, getSalt());
PS.executeUpdate();
System.out.println(" Salt :"+getSalt());

I get different value..why? I'm salting String asdf

Database value [B@2fc396df
Printed value [B@5199c9ac

[jschell]

salt.toString();

That doesn't do what you think it does. It prints the object reference not the contents.

[Bernhard Hiller]

By the way, your function createSalt() creates a new salt every time you call it! When you want to compare the original value and the database value, you hat to write the salt into a variable, then set it to your object, write to database, then retrieve from the database.