uncrackability

Noun

uncrackability (uncountable)

1. The quality of being uncrackable.
   • 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.1969, Gilles Perrault, translated by Peter Wiles, The Red Orchestra, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, published 1970, →ISBN, page 293
   • The makers argue that foreign encryption software will rush in to fill the gap, doing nothing about the uncrackability problem – indeed, making it worse.1996 July 27, “Speaking in Code on the Internet . . .”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Oct 2023, page A22