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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

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

Chinese engineers have turned to it to encrypt data.

From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2024

“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

Federal prosecutors say an OpenAI engineer concealed an encrypted audio recording device in toilet paper behind a conference-room television.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

“It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express,” she allegedly wrote to the donor via the encrypted Signal messaging app.

From Los Angeles Times ● 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

First, a Russian-language message was encrypted using a codebook shared among the different embassies and government offices.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

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

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

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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