title: How best to generate a random salt for a Web Site?
body: <p>i'm wanting to generate a random salt value and put it into the Application state.</p>
  
  <p>Now, i'm using a web farm, so the Application state will be different per machine. I don't want to purchase distributed state farm apps, either.</p>
  
  <p>So .. what are some solutions for this? I thought i could hard-code it in the code OR the web.config file .. but that means the same salt for eva .. not very safe.</p>
  
  <p>Anyone have any suggestions?</p>
  
  <p>Remember - i'm after a unique key (eg a guid) that is the same across all machines. Maybe a config file is the only way?</p>