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trap door
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n. (alt.: trapdoor ) 1. Syn. back door a Bad Thing. 2. [techspeak] A
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trap-door function is one which is easy to compute but very difficult to
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compute the inverse of. Such functions are Good Things with important
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applications in cryptography, specifically in the construction of public-key
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cryptosystems.
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