unbreakability
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + breakability.
Noun
[edit]unbreakability (uncountable)
- The quality of being impossible to break.
- Synonym: unbreakableness
- 2004, American Mathematical Society, Bulletin (new series) of the American Mathematical Society
- So when one speaks of the "unbreakability" of one-time pads, one is speaking only to the mathematical unbreakability of the cryptography and not to the underlying security system in which it is embedded.