trap door functions : Java Glossary

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trap door functions
A calculation easy to do, but hard to undo. Multiplying two prime numbers together is easy, even giant 100-digit ones. Breaking them apart into prime factors is almost impossible. Encryption works on this principle, that these a function easy to do, but hard to undo.

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