uncrackability

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ crackability.

Noun

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.