bcr-2023-015-nonce.md

UR Type Definition for Cryptographic Nonce

BCR-2023-015

© 2023 Blockchain Commons

Authors: Wolf McNally, Christopher Allen
Date: December 9, 2023
Revised: December 9, 2023

Overview

A Nonce is a cryptographically strong random "number used once" and is frequently used in algorithms where a random value is needed that should never be reused. This document defines a fixed-length 12-byte nonces.

CDDL

nonce = #6.40014(bytes .size 12)