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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>salt</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="salescritter.html" title="salescritter"/><link rel="next" href="salt-mines.html" title="salt mines"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">salt</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="salescritter.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="salt-mines.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="salt"/><dt xmlns="" id="salt"><b>salt</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A tiny bit of near-random data inserted where too much regularity
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would be undesirable; a data <a href="../F/frob.html"><i class="glossterm">frob</i></a> (sense 1). For
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example, the Unix <span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">crypt</span>(3)</span> man page mentions that “<span class="quote">the salt string is
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