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Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com> Tue, 08 September 2020 17:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Gendispatch] another possibly problematic word
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It does show up here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonce

Seem to me if it is being used in the context of security it’s not an issue.

Bob


> On Sep 8, 2020, at 4:38 AM, Salz, Rich <rsalz=40akamai.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
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> This was news to me.  FYI
> 
> From: "Rob Wilton (rwilton)" <rwilton=40cisco.com@dmarc.ietf.org>
> …
> A separate issue that we may want to consider relates to use of the word/term “nonce”.  In British English this term is slang for a paedophile, https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/nonce
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> I’m not saying that we should necessarily change this, but we might want to consider whether there is an alternative equivalent term that could be used instead.
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