nonced

Noun

nonce (plural nonces)

1. (archaic, now only in for the nonce) The one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose.
   • That will do for the nonce, but we'll need a better answer for the long term.
2. A nonce word.
   • I had thought that the term was a nonce, but it seems as if it's been picked up by other authors.
3. A value constructed so as to be unique to a particular message in a stream, in order to prevent replay attacks.
   • The protocol opens with A communicating in clear to AS his own claimed identity and the identity of the desired correspondent, B, together with A's nonce identifier for this transaction, I_(A1). ("Nonce" means "used only once.")1978 December, Roger M. Needham, “Using Encryption for Authentication in Large Networks of Computers”, in Communications of the ACM, volume 21, number 12

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