Related:

• New crypt. See /usr/news/crypt.
• Crypt disclaimer: Sorry Holmes, finger slipped!
• CRYPT reCuRsive encrYPt Tape mnemonic [UNIX]
• /usr/news/gotcha
• alt n. A tiny bit of near-random data inserted where too much regularity would be undesirable
  a data frob (sense 1). For example, the Unix crypt(3) man page mentions that "the salt string is used to perturb the DES algorithm in one of 4096 different ways....
• alt: n. A tiny bit of near-random data inserted where too much regularity would be undesirable
  a data {frob} (sense 1). For example, the Unix crypt(3) man page mentions that "the salt string is used to perturb the DES algorithm in one of 4096 different ways....