• oo1@lemmings.world
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    5 months ago

    wow, is Is “nonce” really a commonly used name in the iteration?

    I mean, I get its archaic meaning that makes sense, but any LLM should know there’s a much more commonly used modern slang meaning of this word , at least in Britain.

    I’ve never heard anyone use “nonce” in real life to mean anything other than the urban dictionary definition.

    • barsoap@lemm.ee
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      5 months ago

      Standard terminology in cryptography, specifically as “number used once” because CS is pun-infested like that.

      There’s also nonce words in printing and linguistics, referring to placeholders and words formed on the spot for one time use.

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        5 months ago

        I always read it as n-once in cryptography contexts.