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encrypt

[en-kript] / ɛnˈkrɪpt /


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The Smart DNS feature lets you set up streaming on devices that don’t support VPN apps directly, like some smart TVs and gaming consoles, though this doesn’t encrypt your traffic.

From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2025

The browser-based system uses cryptography to encrypt votes, or keep them secret.

From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2025

The technology, which promises to power certain computations that are virtually impossible for today’s computers, could transform everything, including the way companies make medicine, invest money, deliver internet and encrypt information.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 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

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

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

Meta says later this year it will offer a confidential virtual machine that encrypts data so the company can’t access the chats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

It also plans to roll out an upgraded security model that encrypts user conversations and data.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

Later this year, Meta plans to roll out Muse Confidential VM, an upgraded security model that encrypts all user conversations and data behind a private key inaccessible even to Meta itself.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

Bank A generates and encrypts a Swift payment message containing transfer instructions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

As you type, Enigma encrypts your message—and the number of ways it can do this is mind-boggling.

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

The worst damage was in the facilities division, where about half the servers were encrypted — meaning that district staff could not access their own systems and records.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

“It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express,” she allegedly wrote to the donor via the encrypted Signal messaging app.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Meta will soon give Muse an encrypted mode that will keep the company from being able to see what the user is doing with the agent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Past plots have involved hiring young men via encrypted apps with the promise of payment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Everything else in Ren’s files is encrypted, including a few emails I’d managed to retrieve from his trash.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

A chatbot account connected to Alfozan's spouse also allegedly contained queries related to remote audio recording and encrypting memory cards.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

One common security method involves encrypting data with a massive number known as a public key.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

VPNs help by masking IPs and encrypting traffic, making monitoring harder.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

Quantum computing has the potential to relatively easily break the global and currently used advanced encryption standard, or AES, which involves the same key being used for both encrypting and decrypting data.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2025

Still, even encrypting a large dictionary 25 times using different salts took up too much hard-drive space for a basic home computer.

From Underground by Suelette Dreyfus


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