malleability

Meaning

Noun

• The quality or state of being malleable.
• 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.
• a property of a cryptographic algorithms in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext

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Opposite words

• brittleness
• friability