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encrypt

[en-kript] / ɛnˈkrɪpt /


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VPNs mask your IP address and encrypt your traffic, but websites still can collect data on you through cookies, browser fingerprinting and account logins.

From Salon Nov. 30, 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

“When the allegations about the NSA vacuuming up all of our information emerged in 2013, we began to encrypt everything online including our websites, chat applications, and phone apps,” Wisniewski told me.

From Slate Feb. 16, 2024

Use the“autogenerate” feature on our website to have a computer encrypt your clue, or get ideas from the Puzzlepedia page and create your own.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

Bank A generates and encrypts a Swift payment message containing transfer instructions.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 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

"First of all, people underappreciate privacy," says Vytautas Kaziukonis, chief executive at Surfshark, a security software company that encrypts user's online data and aims to make browsing secure.

From BBC Mar. 10, 2025

Essentially, a top VPN encrypts all the traffic that comes in and out of your computer and routes it through a private server.

From Salon Nov. 23, 2017

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 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

The data would only be available to the user when they are wearing their glasses, would be encrypted locally to the device and wouldn’t be stored in a central database, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

I look back down at my phone, remembering the encrypted note I’d received earlier in the afternoon.

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

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

I emailed her, encrypting the message, waiting for a reply.

From Little Brother by Cory Doctorow



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