• 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.