On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 13:50, David Fokkema wrote: > <taking a sip of salted water> <swallowing it with some difficulties> > <taking a sip of fresh water> Yes, indeed! Funny (and lucky) my taste > buds for 'bitterness' didn't kick in.
Salt is not bitter. In fact, salt suppresses bitter, so it's added to treats/sweets/goodies in order to make them taste sweeter, by suppressing the bitter. Bitter, in turn, suppresses sweetness, so suppressing bitter enhances sweetness. And in order to graft some GNU/Linux-ness into this, adding "salt" to passwords (random characters) helps suppress the "bitterness" of having your system cracked by brute-force dictionary approaches. Cheers, Bret -- bwaldow at alum dot mit dot edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
