Meanings
- not comparableOf a clinical trial: able to be carried out with information withheld from experimenter and/or participants to avoid influencing the outcome.
Furthermore, specific study designs and specific drug comparisons may exaggerate or reduce treatment effects by making conditions less or more blindable.
1997, Marc Hertzman, Douglas E. Feltner, The Handbook of Psychopharmacology Trials - not comparablecomputingSuch that, given an encrypted bit (binary digit), anybody can create a random ciphertext decrypting to the same bit.
Blindable encryption also provides a useful way to make a given ciphertext unrecognizable.
2004, Ari Juels, Financial Cryptography: 8th International Conference: volume 8, page 1881 more example
Finally, we use the term additive joint encryption scheme to denote a secure, blindable, xor-homomorphic, witnessed probabilistic public-key joint encryption scheme.
1994, Douglas R. Stinson, Advances in cryptology: CRYPTO '93, 13th Annual International Cryptology Conference, Santa Barbara, California, USA, August 22-26, 1993: proceedings
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