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Salting may refer to:

  • Salting (food), the preparation of food with edible salt for conservation or taste
  • Salting (cryptography), a method to secure passwords
  • Salting the earth, the military practice of spreading salt on fields to make them unusable for crop-growing
  • Salting out, a method of separating proteins using salt
  • The application of salt to roads in winter to act as a de-icer
  • A kind of confidence trick in which valuable resources are scattered on a piece of property to be "discovered" by a prospective buyer
  • Allowing a horse to catch the nagana disease, so that after recovery the horse can be used in infected areas
  • Salting mailing lists, including fictitious entries in mailing lists to detect misuse



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By salting the password hashes with two random characters, even if two users choose the same password, odds are that they cannot discover that they have done so by reading the ...

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Salt (cryptography) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Salting is the preservation of food with salt. It is related to pickling (preparing food with brine, rather than dry salt). It is one of many methods of preserving food.

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