May 15, 2003

salt

n.

A tiny bit of near-random data inserted where too much regularity would be undesirable; a data frob (sense 1). For example, the Unix crypt3 man page mentions that the salt string is used to perturb the DES algorithm in one of 4096 different ways.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:31 AM

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