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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

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

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

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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