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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

But MediaStreamer doesn’t encrypt your traffic or change your IP address — it’s just a DNS service.

From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2026

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

By turning the rings, you could encrypt each plaintext letter with a different scrambled alphabet.

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

A VPN encrypts all the data sent to and from users’ phones, shielding them from hackers who might be trying to steal it.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

These can be useful, but it’s important to remember that, contrary to the VPN app, which encrypts your entire device’s connection, the browser extension only protects your browser’s traffic.

From Salon ● Mar. 13, 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

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

Aschenbrenner and Bankman-Fried were also in 17 group chats together on the encrypted messaging app Signal, according to documents from Bankman-Fried’s trial, including conversations named “EA Discussion” and “Anthropic Chat.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 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

The paper says the demand is UK ministers' "latest bid to create a 'backdoor' to access encrypted customer data, a year after the Home Office agreed to drop a previous order".

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 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

Yet it does—and the message is encrypted in Bacon's cipher.

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

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

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

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