scmbradley on Nostr: Reading about the maths of cryptography and I just cannot get over the use of "nonce" ...
Reading about the maths of cryptography and I just cannot get over the use of "nonce" to mean "random meaningless string of bits". Like it's talking about the size of nonce-space. How am I supposed to take this seriously?
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