Associations to the word «Trapdoor»
Wiktionary
TRAPDOOR, noun. A hinged or sliding door set into a floor or ceiling.
TRAPDOOR, noun. (theater) Such a trap set into the floor of a stage to allow fast exits and entrances.
TRAPDOOR, noun. (computing) A secret method of obtaining access to a program or online system; a backdoor.
TRAPDOOR, noun. (mathematics) (cryptography) The special information that permits the inverse of a trapdoor function to be easily computed.
TRAPDOOR, noun. (mining) A door in a level for regulating the ventilating current; weather door.
TRAPDOOR FUNCTION, noun. (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.
TRAPDOOR FUNCTIONS, noun. Plural of trapdoor function
TRAPDOOR SPIDER, noun. Any spider, of the family Ctenizidae, that constructs a silk-lined burrow with a hinged lid.
TRAPDOOR SPIDERS, noun. Plural of trapdoor spider
Wise words
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