Policy

Specify CNG salt length

This policy setting allows you to specify 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 of 16 will be used.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Office
Category Microsoft Word 2016 / Word Options / Security / Cryptography
Policy ID f3aa148a647a
Internal name L_SpecifyCNGSaltLength

Registry

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

Policy notes

This policy setting allows you to specify 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 of 16 will be used.

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