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A nonce is a cryptographic concept of an arbitrary number that is never used more than once.
TextNonce is a nonce because the first 16 characters represents the current
time, which will never have been generated before, nor will it be generated
again, across the period of time in which a Timespec (or std::time::Duration,
counting from the UNIX epoch) is valid.
TextNonce additionally includes bytes of randomness, making it difficult to
predict. This makes it suitable to be used for a session ID.
It is also text-based, using only characters in the base64 character set.
Various length TextNoncees may be generated. The minimum length is 16
characters, and lengths must be evenly divisible by 4.
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- A nonce is a cryptographic concept of an arbitrary number that is never used more than once.