encrypt
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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
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Bank A generates and encrypts a Swift payment message containing transfer instructions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
So, just like a VPN, Tor encrypts traffic between your device and the Tor network and, in the process, changes your IP to that of the Tor node.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026
While it makes your data more secure, it comes with a downside - it encrypts your data so heavily that it cannot be recovered if you lose access to your account.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2025
Some Samsung Galaxy smartphones also have "enhanced data protection" which encrypts back-ups of messages, call logs, apps and settings and more end to end.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2025
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
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The immediate risk is a “harvest now, decrypt later” approach by bad actors, who are downloading large sets of encrypted data they can’t crack now—but could unlock once quantum computing algorithms are good enough.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
The information is encrypted and transmitted to a secure database that can only be accessed by San Diego police personnel, according to the department.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
She added to the informant on an encrypted messaging app that she had "picked up some anarchist literature at the social justice center" which "could have some good tips."
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
In the parking lot, a legal observer helped her download the encrypted messaging app Signal and join her neighborhood rapid-response group.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Once they had the plaintext, Elizebeth could see how each letter had been encrypted.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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One common security method involves encrypting data with a massive number known as a public key.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 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
In fact, the firm's commitment to encrypting messages is so significant that it previously said it would rather be blocked in the UK than weaken the encryption it uses.
From BBC ● May 28, 2024
But the company is encrypting its messaging platform to compete with other secure services that shield users’ content, essentially turning off the lights for investigators.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2024
So instead of just encrypting the message with your private key, you also encrypt it with your boss's public key.
From Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
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