Nonce
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Nonce may refer to:
- NonceNonceNonce may refer to:* Nonce, time being: the present occasion; "for the nonce"* Nonce word, a word used to meet a need that is not expected to recur* Cryptographic nonce, a number or bit string used only once, in security engineering...
, time being: the present occasion; "for the nonce" - Nonce wordNonce wordA nonce word is a word used only "for the nonce"—to meet a need that is not expected to recur. Quark, for example, was formerly a nonce word in English, appearing only in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Murray Gell-Mann then adopted it to name a new class of subatomic particle...
, a word used to meet a need that is not expected to recur - Cryptographic nonceCryptographic nonceIn security engineering, nonce is an arbitrary number used only once to sign a cryptographic communication. It is similar in spirit to a nonce word, hence the name. It is often a random or pseudo-random number issued in an authentication protocol to ensure that old communications cannot be reused...
, a number or bit string used only once, in security engineering - The NonceThe NonceFor Craig Gibb see NonceThe Nonce was a hip-hop duo from Los Angeles, California, that was active in the 1990s...
, American rap duo - Nonce (slang)Nonce (slang)In the United Kingdom and Australia, the term nonce is a slang word used to refer to a sex offender and/or child sexual abuser...
, a sex offender - Nonce orders, an architectural term