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encrypt

[en-kript] / ɛnˈkrɪpt /


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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

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

It follows criticism from government and police after Meta started to encrypt Messenger chats by default.

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2024

The more steps a cipher had, the more time it took to encrypt.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

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

The worst damage was in the facilities division, where about half the servers were encrypted — meaning that district staff could not access their own systems and records.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

A Saudi national who worked as an engineer at OpenAI has been arrested and charged with hiding an encrypted recording device at a company office in San Francisco.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Prosecutors told the court that Middlebrough's role included taking part in a planning meeting in Liverpool arranged with the help of encrypted communications.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Many looted items appear on Facebook and channels for the encrypted messaging app Telegram, which are based outside the country, Junaid said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Like Aristotle, Wolff imagined that the embryo contained some sort of encrypted information—code—that was not merely a miniature version of a human, but instructions to make a human from scratch.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

A chatbot account connected to Alfozan's spouse also allegedly contained queries related to remote audio recording and encrypting memory cards.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

One common security method involves encrypting data with a massive number known as a public key.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

By masking your IP address and encrypting your traffic, a VPN makes it significantly harder for these entities to track you across different websites.

From Salon ● Feb. 12, 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

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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