malleable
Able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers.
Other meanings
Flexible, liable to change.
“My opinion on the subject is malleable.”
in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext
Synonyms
- ductile
Related words
- immalleable
- malleableization
- malleablize
- nonmalleable
- semimalleable
- unmalleable
- malleable iron
- malleableize
Word history
From Latin "malleāre" (to hammer).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “malleable” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.