blindable

English

Etymology

blind +‎ -able

Adjective

blindable (not comparable)

1. Of a clinical trial: able to be carried out with information withheld from experimenter and/or participants to avoid influencing the outcome.
   • 1997, Marc Hertzman, Douglas E. Feltner, The Handbook of Psychopharmacology Trials:

     Furthermore, specific study designs and specific drug comparisons may exaggerate or reduce treatment effects by making conditions less or more blindable.

2. (cryptography) Such that, given an encrypted bit (binary digit), anybody can create a random ciphertext decrypting to the same bit.
   • 1994, Douglas R. Stinson, Advances in cryptology: CRYPTO '93, 13th Annual International Cryptology Conference, Santa Barbara, California, USA, August 22-26, 1993: proceedings:

     Finally, we use the term additive joint encryption scheme to denote a secure, blindable, xor-homomorphic, witnessed probabilistic public-key joint encryption scheme.

   • 2004, Ari Juels, Financial Cryptography: 8th International Conference: volume 8, page 188:

     Blindable encryption also provides a useful way to make a given ciphertext unrecognizable.