Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of sprinkling, seasoning, filling, or furnishing with salt; specifically, the celebration of the Eton montem. See
montem . - noun A salt-marsh.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of sprinkling, impregnating, or furnishing, with salt.
- noun A salt marsh.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
salt . - noun uncountable the act of
sprinkling salt , either onfood , or on an icy road - noun countable a
salt marsh - noun uncountable The act of tampering with an investigation site by adding
bogus evidence.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of adding salt to food
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Examples
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Come on, no offense, but this kind of salting is a bit high-school-ish
Sound Politics: Darcy Burner needs to disclose her performance reviews from Microsoft 2006
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I will probably have to begin salting it at the table, which I have not previously done.
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Yeah, thanks for that, Dad: there’s three inches of snow on the ground here and I just did my arms in salting the drive.
…the former cast of Neighbours, Part I « Sven’s guide to… 2005
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Supports password salting (up to 512 bits), reducing the risks presented by dictionary attacks.
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Supports password salting (up to 512 bits), reducing the risks presented by dictionary attacks.
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They understand that hashing is good, they vaguely understand the notion of salting, and they figure that salt+hash is all they need to know.
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· Supports password salting (up to 512 bits), reducing the risks presented by dictionary attacks.
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Modular design allowing 3rd party drivers to be created, incorporating new hash / cypher algorithmsDecryptionsoftware available to improve transparency, and allow even the mostjunior software engineer to prove data is being encrypted correctlySupports password salting (up to 512 bits), reducing the risks presented by dictionary attacks.
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Interesting bit at the end - sounds rather like the death and cutting up of Osiris and the "salting" of his body parts around the "nomes" of Egypt, doesn't it?
Archive 2008-03-01 Jan 2008
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Its also a good idea to look at "salting" the passwords, to prevent attacks with rainbow tables but I'll leave that for another day.
login system 2008
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Salting refers to a union member seeking a job at a non-union site in an effort to form a union there; so "not salting" refers to the absence of external motive.
NPM is Not Particularly Magnanimous? Staff fired after trying to unionize – complaints Thomas Claburn 2019
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