Question

Can anyone tell me what exactly does this Java code do?

SecureRandom random = SecureRandom.getInstance('SHA1PRNG'); byte[] bytes = new byte[20]; synchronized (random) {     random.nextBytes(bytes); }  return Base64.encode(bytes); 

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Step by step explanation will be useful so that I can recreate this code in VB. Thanks

Answer 1

Using code snippets you can get to something like this

 Dim randomNumGen As RandomNumberGenerator = RNGCryptoServiceProvider.Create() Dim randomBytes(20) As Byte randomNumGen.GetBytes(randomBytes) return Convert.ToBase64String(randomBytes)