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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 133 points 1 month ago (5 children)

For all my American friends, "nonce" is equivalent to "pedo".

[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 56 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I always thought it meant idiot or dunce. Glad I never used it, lol.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Appreciate it.

I kept seeing it like "Death to arbitrary numbers in Cryptography?"

[–] mspencer712@programming.dev 15 points 1 month ago

I know right? “Number used Once” is what I was taught.

[–] Caesium@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thank you, I struggled to look it up and find an answer that made any sense 😅

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 5 points 1 month ago

So it's not 'once' but for 0? Sad face.