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encrypt

[en-kript] / ɛnˈkrɪpt /


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Companies may tell you, for example, that they encrypt biometric data, but they may not tell you the details, so there’s no way to tell how strong their safeguards are.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

A proxy server typically does not encrypt your connection.

From Salon • Nov. 26, 2025

Unlike Telegram, which does not automatically encrypt messages in its larger-size chat rooms, Signal limits the size of its group chats and keeps encryption as the default.

From Slate • Mar. 27, 2025

It follows criticism from government and police after Meta started to encrypt Messenger chats by default.

From BBC • Jan. 26, 2024

The more steps a cipher had, the more time it took to encrypt.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield