encrypt
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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
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
“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
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
Past plots have involved hiring young men via encrypted apps with the promise of payment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Or use the Signal messaging app, an end-to-end encrypted message service designed to protect your data.
From BBC ● Sep. 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
"We were surprised that these messages were not encrypted, and that vulnerability was there."
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Just when I’m starting to think Kenn has gotten it all wrong about me, an encrypted message appears.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
One common security method involves encrypting data with a massive number known as a public key.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Privacy A VPN’s raison d’être: encrypting your traffic to mask your internet browsing from your ISP and prevent it from throttling your connection.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 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
Ransomware is a type of malware which prevents someone from accessing a device and the data stored on it, usually by encrypting files, according to the National Cyber Security Centre.
From BBC ● May 9, 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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