undetectability

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From un- +‎ detect +‎ -ability.

Noun[edit]

undetectability (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being impossible or difficult to detect.
    • 2006, David Salomon, Coding for Data and Computer Communications[1], →ISBN, page 345:
      In particular, embedding capacity, robustness, and undetectability are mutually conflicting and cannot all be achieved by the same algorithm.
    • 2008, Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second ...[2], →ISBN:
      The highest degrees of anonymity are undetectability and unobservability.
    • 2010, Information Hiding[3], →ISBN, page 197:
      On a high level, undetectability means that no efficient algorithm can distinguish between inter-packet delays of the legitimate traffic and steganographic traffic.