Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being uncrackable.
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)2 more examples
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 293The 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
Origin
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