Definition of nonce
Definition of nonce
- nonce Noun The one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose (now only in "for the nonce").
- nonce Noun A nonce word.
- nonce Noun A number, usually generated randomly or from the time, used once in a cryptographic protocol, to prevent replay attacks.
- nonce Adjective denoting something occurring once.
- nonce Noun A sex offender, "especially" of children; a paedophile.
- nonce Noun A stupid or worthless person.
- nonce Noun A datum constructed so as to be unique to a particular message in a stream, in order to prevent replay attacks.
- nonce Noun In a security engineering context, a value used only once.
