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uncrackability en · NOUN

Etymology

From un- + crackability.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being uncrackable.
    • So that although the Director may have been the anguished figure earlier described, distressed at having to sacrifice a handful of agents in order to save his country, it is equally possible that he was a stolid bureaucrat pinning his simple faith on the uncrackability of his codes. 1969, Gilles Perrault, translated by Peter Wiles, The Red Orchestra, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, published 1970, →ISBN, page 293:
    • The uncrackability of one-time pads requires they must be completely random and never seen or used before or after. 2008 July 31, Elliott Roper, “Yahoo switches off the DRM servers”, in uk.comp.sys.mac (Usenet):
    • The makers argue that foreign encryption software will rush in to fill the gap, doing nothing about the uncrackability problem – indeed, making it worse. 1996 July 27, “Speaking in Code on the Internet . . .”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Oct 2023, page A22: