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[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days 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.

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 days ago

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

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