UR Type Definition for Random Salt

BCR-2023-017

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Authors: Wolf McNally, Christopher Allen
Date: December 9, 2023
Revised: December 9, 2023

Overview

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.

CDDL

salt = #6.40018(bytes)