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From: Rich <rich@example.invalid>
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Subject: Re: fun with nonces
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2024 04:13:16 -0000 (UTC)
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Stefan Claas <pollux@tilde.club> wrote:
> He does not need to send Alice the nonces, once he
> arrived, because they both have a shared secret.
> Alice and Bob can generate them by themselves, no
> matter what timezone they are in and the nonces will
> be random and can be re-generated with the same values

They cannot be simultaneously "random" and be capable of being 
"re-generated with the same values".

At best, they are psudeo-random.  And, looking over the code, indeed, 
they are generated from a psudeo-random generator, go's 'rand'.

> https://github.com/stefanclaas/nfs

Not the best choice in acronym, as 'nfs' is already quite well known in 
tech circles as "Network File System".