Salt

nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026

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A non-secret value that is used in a cryptographic process, usually to ensure that the results of computations for one instance cannot be reused by an Attacker.

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Credential0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1

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Sensitivity

—60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Information Class

—80%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Salts
possessive: Salt's
pluralpossessive: Salts'

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