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A device placed in an encryption scheme that allows someone to read easily any messages that have been encrypted. There has, for example, been a suspicion in the computing community that there is a trapdoor within the Data Encryption Standard developed by the US government which allows agencies of the government to read messages.
From: trapdoor in A Dictionary of the Internet »
Subjects: Computing.
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