uncheatable

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English

Etymology

un- +‎ cheatable (in turn from cheat +‎ -able).

Adjective

uncheatable (not comparable)

  1. Not subject to cheating, impossible to cheat (at).
    • 2002, George W. Barlow, The Cichlid Fishes: Nature’s Grand Experiment In Evolution,[1] Da Capo Press, →ISBN, page 100:
      Amoz Zahavi[sic] argued, however, that natural selection should favor signals that cannot be cheated.32 Uncheatable signals carry a cost, a handicap.
    • 2005, Song Han, Elizabeth Chang, and Jie Wang, “Attack on Undeniable Partially Blind Signatures”, Andrew Blyth (editor), EC2ND 2005: Proceedings Of The First European Conference on Computer Network Defence, School Of Computing, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK, Birkhäuser (2006), →ISBN, page 143,
      We show that the signer can disavow any valid signature to the verifier. In other words, we show that the disavowal of their scheme is not uncheatable.

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