blindable
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[edit]blindable (not comparable)
- Of a clinical trial: able to be carried out with information withheld from experimenter and/or participants to avoid influencing the outcome.
- 1997, Marc Hertzman, Douglas E. Feltner, The Handbook of Psychopharmacology Trials:
- Furthermore, specific study designs and specific drug comparisons may exaggerate or reduce treatment effects by making conditions less or more blindable.
- (cryptography) Such that, given an encrypted bit (binary digit), anybody can create a random ciphertext decrypting to the same bit.
- 1994, Douglas R. Stinson, Advances in cryptology: CRYPTO '93, 13th Annual International Cryptology Conference, Santa Barbara, California, USA, August 22-26, 1993: proceedings:
- Finally, we use the term additive joint encryption scheme to denote a secure, blindable, xor-homomorphic, witnessed probabilistic public-key joint encryption scheme.
- 2004, Ari Juels, Financial Cryptography: 8th International Conference: volume 8, page 188:
- Blindable encryption also provides a useful way to make a given ciphertext unrecognizable.