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trapdoor function
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English
Etymology
From the idea that it is easy to fall through a trapdoor but difficult to climb back out.
Noun
trapdoor function (plural trapdoor functions)
- (mathematics, cryptography) A function that is easy to compute in one direction but difficult to compute in the opposite direction (finding its inverse) without special information.
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