waxwing on Nostr: It's short for "number used once". Several cryptographic protocols require numbers ...
It's short for "number used once".
Several cryptographic protocols require numbers that are not repeated between runs of the protocol.
Often they are kept secret, but not always.
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2025-03-27 17:48:25Event JSON
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