On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Tony Stevenson <pct...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 5 Sep 2012, at 11:57, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote: > >> FWIW, I have time this week to impl this... >> >> Feedback/Concerns? > > Only the term 'nonce' - It has very unfortunate connotations from UK english. > [1] :-)
Sadly, we lost that battle a long time ago, it is a term of art in crypto/security - which is why, btw, I want to know what it is actually used for, because generally predictable nonces are a _really bad idea_, and that is what is currently proposed. I'm assuming that whoever wrote the code wasn't a complete idiot and did not use cryptographic randomness for no reason. But perhaps they did, as Jim seems to think. > > > [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonce_(slang) > > > > > Cheers, > Tony > > ---------------------------------- > Tony Stevenson > > t...@pc-tony.com > t...@caret.cam.ac.uk > pct...@apache.org > > http://www.pc-tony.com > > GPG - 1024D/51047D66 > ---------------------------------- >
