salting
salting Lexical Profile
salting Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The act or process of treating, seasoning, or preserving something with salt.
"Before refrigeration became widespread, the salting of fish and meat was essential for surviving the winter months."
In cryptography, the practice of adding random data to an input before hashing a password in order to defend against dictionary and rainbow table attacks.
"Proper password salting ensures that two users with the exact same password will have completely different cryptographic hashes."
British An area of coastal marshland or tidal flats in Great Britain that is periodically flooded by seawater and often used for grazing livestock (usually used in the plural).
"Flocks of sheep grazed peacefully across the coastal saltings as the tide slowly receded."
The fraudulent act of introducing precious metal or gems into a mine or piece of land to deceive prospective buyers regarding its true value.
"The prospectors were arrested for the deliberate salting of the abandoned claim with gold dust."