salt
MINERAL USED AS FOOD INGREDIENT, COMPOSED PRIMARILY OF SODIUM CHLORIDE
Common salt; Table salt; Salt production; Table Salt; Normal salt; Salt (food); Salt crystals; Salt crystal; Edible salt; Refined salt; Saltmaking; Dietary salt; Salt refining; Refining salt; Manufacture of salt; Salt industry; Salt making; The salt industry; Culinary salt
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) manual page mentions that "the
salt
string is used to perturb the DES algorithm in one of 4096
different ways."