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encrypt

[en-kript] / ɛnˈkrɪpt /


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

From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2026

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

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

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 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

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

“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

Past plots have involved hiring young men via encrypted apps with the promise of payment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Many carriers also now support end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 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

Inside his safe, they found a cache of seventeen short, encrypted messages on slips of yellow telegram paper.

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

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

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 ● Nov. 26, 2025

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

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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