password-hash: clarity improvements for Salt* APIs
#1266
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SaltandSaltStringtypes are wrappers for B64-encoded salt strings as used by the PHC string format.These API changes make it clearer that the input string needs to be B64-encoded.
The old API is preserved but with deprecations to ease upgrades.
The following methods were renamed:
Salt::new=>Salt::from_b64Salt::b64_decode=>Salt::decode_b64(for consistency)SaltString::new=>SaltString::from_b64SaltString::b64_decode=>SaltString::decode_b64SaltString::b64_encode=>SaltString::encode_b64The
Salt::as_bytesandSaltString::as_bytesmethods were removed, as they return the B64-encoded string as bytes, rather than decoding B64 to bytes, which is what a user might be expecting.