• Caesium@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    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
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      6 hours 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.