undetectability

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noun

The quality of being impossible or difficult to detect.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

nounundetectability (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe quality of being impossible or difficult to detect.

    The highest degrees of anonymity are undetectability and unobservability.

    2008, Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second ..., →ISBN
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    In particular, embedding capacity, robustness, and undetectability are mutually conflicting and cannot all be achieved by the same algorithm.

    2006, David Salomon, Coding for Data and Computer Communications, →ISBN, page 345

    On a high level, undetectability means that no efficient algorithm can distinguish between inter-packet delays of the legitimate traffic and steganographic traffic.

    2010, Information Hiding, →ISBN, page 197

Origin

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