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For all my American friends, "nonce" is equivalent to "pedo".
I always thought it meant idiot or dunce. Glad I never used it, lol.
Same
Appreciate it.
I kept seeing it like "Death to arbitrary numbers in Cryptography?"
I know right? “Number used Once” is what I was taught.
I got to learn this after I started referring to a label at work as 'nonce' because of how it looked -- "NONC-3"
and THEN I found out the definition of the term
A nonce is jargon in cryptography. It means a random unique value used to make it impractical for an attacker to guess in a protocol.
I knew the definition from way back and had a time when learning about cryptographic nonces https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_nonce
Thank you, I struggled to look it up and find an answer that made any sense 😅
So it's not 'once' but for 0? Sad face.