undetectability

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ detect +‎ -ability.

Noun

undetectability (uncountable)

1. The quality of being impossible or difficult to detect.
   • 2006, David Salomon, Coding for Data and Computer Communications‎^[1], →ISBN, page 345:

     In particular, embedding capacity, robustness, and undetectability are mutually conflicting and cannot all be achieved by the same algorithm.

   • 2008, Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second ...‎^[2], →ISBN:

     The highest degrees of anonymity are undetectability and unobservability.

   • 2010, Information Hiding‎^[3], →ISBN, page 197:

     On a high level, undetectability means that no efficient algorithm can distinguish between inter-packet delays of the legitimate traffic and steganographic traffic.