In cryptography, a salt is random data fed as an additional input to a one-way function that hashes data, a password or passphrase. Salting helps defend against attacks that use precomputed tables, by vastly growing the size of table needed for a successful attack. It also helps protect passwords that occur multiple times in a database, as a new salt is used for each password instance. Additionally, salting does not place any burden on users.

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In cryptography, a salt is random data fed as an additional input to a one-way function that hashes data, a password or passphrase. Salting helps defend against attacks that use precomputed tables, by vastly growing the size of table needed for a successful attack. It also helps protect passwords that occur multiple times in a database, as a new salt is used for each password instance. Additionally, salting does not place any burden on users.

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Notable quotes

“But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.”
— Genesis 19:26 (KJV)
“And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.”
— Leviticus 2:13 (KJV)
“Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.”
— Matthew 5:13 (KJV)
“Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.”
— Colossians 4:6 (KJV)
“Can you find in the whole of her body the least pinch of salt?”
— Catullus, Carmina, 86
“Budd: That gentled ya down, didn't it? Yep ... ain't nobody a badass with two barrels of rock salt dug deep in their backyard.”
— Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004)

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