WORD OF THE DAY: NONCE
1. Nonce, time being: the present occasion; “for the nonce”
2. Cryptographic nonce, a number or bit string used only once, in security engineering
Until today, I always thought ‘nonce’ was some sort of abbreviation for “nonsense”. Because I’ve always seen it used to refer to a one-time key in software.
You learn something new every day. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2012-09-21 01:02:00 UTC
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