encrypt
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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
The browser-based system uses cryptography to encrypt votes, or keep them secret.
From BBC • Nov. 25, 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
“He used a substitution cipher to encrypt his message as a backup, in case you figured out the scytale. Right?” she asked James.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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