trapdoor
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- A hinged or sliding door set into a floor or ceiling.
- Such a trap set into the floor of a stage to allow fast exits and entrances.
- A secret method of obtaining access to a program or online system; a backdoor.
- The special information that permits the inverse of a trapdoor function to be easily computed.
- A door in a level for regulating the ventilating current; a weather door.
Verb
- To subvert (a cryptographic scheme) by means of a secret parameter that makes the trapdoor function easy to compute.
- To form a trapdoor deformity.
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