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I am researching how Masked Authenticated Messaging (MAM) works. The masked_payload is created in the create function in file: https://github.com/iotaledger/MAM/blob/master/mam/src/mam.rs

masked_payload = [ Encoded Index, Encoded Message Length, encrypted [ Message, Nonce, Signature, Encoded Number of Siblings, Siblings ] ]

My question is what is the purpose of this Nonce in the masked_payload?

blockmined
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The purpose of the nonce is explained in: https://www.mobilefish.com/download/iota/masked_payload_part20.pdf

Robert Lie
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On the IOTA blog they state:

an additional nonce may be used as a revocable encryption key

If I understand it correctly (and I believe I saw this in a MAM POC somewhere), it can be used to withdraw access to a specific subscriber of a restricted MAM stream. However, I struggle to understand how this works.

source: https://blog.iota.org/introducing-masked-authenticated-messaging-e55c1822d50e

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