Unbreakability

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being impossible to break. uncountable

    "2004, American Mathematical Society, Bulletin (new series) of the American Mathematical Society So when one speaks of the "unbreakability" of one-time pads, one is speaking only to the mathematical unbreakability of the cryptography and not to the underlying security system in which it is embedded."

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"2004, American Mathematical Society, Bulletin (new series) of the American Mathematical Society So when one speaks of the "unbreakability" of one-time pads, one is speaking only to the mathematical unbreakability of the cryptography and not to the underlying security system in which it is embedded."

Etymology

From un- + breakability.

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