public static byte[] ConcatenatedSaltAndSaltedHash(string passwordStr)
{
// hash password with salt.. still trying to understand a bit about the difference between unicode and base 64 string so for now we are just dealing with byte arrays
byte[] salt = HelperMethods.CreateSalt(HelperMethods.salt_length);
byte[] password = HelperMethods.GenerateSaltedHash(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(passwordStr), salt);
byte[] concatenated = new byte[salt.Length + password.Length];
Buffer.BlockCopy(salt, 0, concatenated, 0, salt.Length);
Buffer.BlockCopy(password, 0, concatenated, salt.Length, password.Length);
return(concatenated);
}
