encrypt
Example Sentences
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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
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
“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
The more steps a cipher had, the more time it took to encrypt.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
