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