Policy

Specify CNG salt length

This policy setting allows you to specific the number of bytes of salt that should be used. If you enable this policy setting, the bytes specified will be used. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the default length or 16 will be used.

Policy
PackMicrosoft Office
CategoryMicrosoft Excel 2016 / Excel Options / Security / Cryptography
Policy ID2c85fb1b5bdc
Internal nameL_SpecifyCNGSaltLength

Registry

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HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\excel\security\crypto\saltbytes

Policy notes

This policy setting allows you to specific the number of bytes of salt that should be used. If you enable this policy setting, the bytes specified will be used. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the default length or 16 will be used.

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