Re: [public-webappsec] <none>

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 3:55 AM Craig Francis <craig.francis@gmail.com>
wrote:

> But whenever I mention the word "nonce" [...] sometimes they wonder why
> paedophiles are relevant
>

Ugh -- been in the spec for years and this is the first time I've heard of
this unfortunate slang meaning. I'll take comfort in the fact that crypto
use of "nonce" is almost certainly inspired by the phrase "for the nonce"
for which the OED has citations going back to the 1200s. I don't buy
"Number used ONCE" as the real origin, not for something that's such an old
legit word that just happens to have essentially the same meaning. The
slang meaning seems to have come from the 1970s. A couple of places are
trying to sell it as a prison guard acronym for paedophiles likely to get
beaten up ("Not On Normal Communal Excercise") but that sounds more like a
backcronym to me; a shortened form of "Nancy boy" seems more likely.

-Dan Veditz