on salting mines: http://www.deadwood.com/magazine/archives/Salting.htm
It could also just be because salt makes food more interesting, and a password salt makes the password hash more "interesting." > Evan, > Your post got me curious so I found something here: > http://www.ciphersbyritter.com/GLOSSARY.HTM#Salt > > In there it says something about salting a mine with nuggets. It also > says something about salting a dictionary with invented words. Well, > I'm not a miner, and I don't understand the dictionary thing either, but > maybe this gets us one step closer to understanding where this term > comes from. > > Phillip ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
