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Authors: Wolf McNally, Christopher Allen
Date: December 9, 2023
Revised: December 9, 2023
A salt
is random data frequently used as an additional input to one-way algorithms (e.g., password hashing) where similar inputs (the same password) should not yield the same outputs (the hashed password.) This is known as "decorrelation". Salts are not usually secret.
salt = #6.40018(bytes)