It says, in the RFC: "We use two kinds of nonces in CurveZMQ. A long nonce protects permanent keys, and is 16 octets from a good random number generator. A short nonce protects transient keys and is an 8-octet sequential number."
http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:26 On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Diego Duclos <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I've been reading up on the CurveZMQ and CurveCP specs. > I've noticed they use a mix if 8 and 16 bytes nonces, who are then all > passed to 24 bytes using a constant prefix. > I was wondering when 8 byte and when 16 byte nonces are chosen as well as > why. > > Kind Regards, > > Diego Duclos > Palm Stone Games > > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev > _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
