uncrackability

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ crackability.

Noun

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uncrackability (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being uncrackable.
    • 1969, Gilles Perrault, translated by Peter Wiles, The Red Orchestra, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, published 1970, →ISBN, page 293:
      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.
    • 1996 July 27, “Speaking in Code on the Internet . . .”, in The Washington Post[1], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 October 2023, page A22:
      The makers argue that foreign encryption software will rush in to fill the gap, doing nothing about the uncrackability problem – indeed, making it worse.
    • 2008 July 31, Elliott Roper, “Yahoo switches off the DRM servers”, in uk.comp.sys.mac[2] (Usenet):
      The uncrackability of one-time pads requires they must be completely random and never seen or used before or after.