nonce

Generate cryptographic nonces.

Version on this page:	1.0.7
LTS Haskell 24.24:	1.0.7@rev:2
Stackage Nightly 2025-12-15:	1.0.7@rev:2
Latest on Hackage:	1.0.7@rev:2

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BSD-3-Clause licensed by Felipe Lessa

Maintained by Prowdsponsor

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Module documentation for 1.0.7

Crypto
- Crypto.Nonce

Depends on 8 packages(full list with versions):

base, base64-bytestring, bytestring, entropy, text, transformers, unliftio, unliftio-core

Used by 3 packages in lts-15.3(full list with versions):

mongoDB, serversession, yesod-auth

According to the Wikipedia, a nonce is an arbitrary number used only once in a cryptographic communication. This package contain helper functions for generating nonces.

There are many kinds of nonces used in different situations. It's not guaranteed that by using the nonces from this package you won't have any security issues. Please make sure that the nonces generated via this package are usable on your design.