malleability
noun1
The quality or state of being malleable.
2
The property by virtue of which a material can be extended in all directions without rupture by the application of load; a material's ability to be bent, formed, or shaped without cracking or breaking.
3
Computing, Cryptography, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences a property of a cryptographic algorithms in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext
- Antonyms
- brittleness, friability
- Derived terms
- unmalleability