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salt
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n. A tiny bit of near-random data inserted where too much regularity would
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be undesirable; a data frob (sense 1). For example, the Unix crypt (3) man
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page mentions that the salt string is used to perturb the DES algorithm in
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one of 4096 different ways.
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