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16285	Remove a misleading comment from the signing code	Paul McMillan	nobody	lines 99 and 100 of the signing module indicate that the provided salt is used to prevent brute forcing. This is misleading, it's actually necessary for namespacing signed strings, so that users can't take a signed string from one part of Django and put it into a different part which will trust it since it was properly signed.	Cleanup/optimization	closed	Core (Other)	dev	Normal	fixed			Ready for checkin	1	0	0	0	0	0