Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pepper (cryptography)

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The result was keep. A merge discussion can be held on the article talk page if desired, but from the sources provided it seems to be notable enough. ansh 666 07:39, 14 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Pepper (cryptography)

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Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. Sneftel (talk) 15:49, 6 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Seems to be two non-notable neologisms shoved together. Only one source for each usage of the term, neither one peer-reviewed. Neither concept seems to be in general use.

Keep - I'm inclined to say this article needs improvement, not deletion. It's clearly a real thing, and I already found one article in a reliable source, semi-current, about it very quickly. Rockypedia (talk) 19:04, 6 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Merge to Salt (cryptography); I'm not opposed to a straight keep. The term is well-defined in blog posts [1] [2], I've never heard the definition The pepper is small and randomly generated for each input to be hashed before and am unsure whether it is ever used in that way. However, in book references, [3] say things like There is really no analysis of the benefits of a pepper out there. power~enwiki (π, ν) 19:29, 13 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or Merge. I've found enough sources to convince myself this is a real thing. The Guardian, A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography, are a couple of WP:RS. I also found a slew of bloggy-type things which are not WP:RS, but still convince me that it's a real term in common use in the crypto community. It's probably notable on its own, but I'm not convinced it wouldn't be covered better as part of Salt (cryptography). I could go either way. -- RoySmith (talk) 00:29, 14 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.