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salt
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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 crypt(3) man page mentions that "the salt
string is used to perturb the DES algorithm in one of 4096
different ways."
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