How to Use encrypt in a Sentence

encrypt

verb
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  • The software will encrypt the message before it is sent.
  • They’re used to encrypt messages (opens a new tab) and study the shapes of viruses (opens a new tab).
    — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Roche said that it could bee seen on the screen that someone was encrypting the files and that the city could not open them.
    — cleveland.com, 10 July 2019
  • Those PDFs claim to be encrypted and come with a link to decrypt or access the file.
    — Joe Hindy, PCMAG, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Tap or click for methods to encrypt your emails and messages.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The song can’t be shared as the link is encrypted — it can only be heard by scanning the garment.
    — Maghan McDowell, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2023
  • This required the company to find new ways to encrypt data and keep it safe.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Hackers stole vast amounts of the firm's data and encrypted it, putting it under lock and key.
    — Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Nov. 2019
  • To verify when voice and video calls are end-to-end encrypted, check the Voice/Video Details and look for a green lock icon.
    — Emily Dreibelbis, PCMAG, 18 Sep. 2024
  • This exchange gives both your device and the tower the keys to unlock the data that is about to be encrypted.
    — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 10 Aug. 2019
  • French says the map of your home is encrypted and stored securely in Amazon’s cloud.
    — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2023
  • These are low-tech ways of encrypting the voter’s choices.
    — Quanta Magazine, 12 Mar. 2020
  • And then the sender can use that public key to encrypt their message, send it over the unsecured channel.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2024
  • By default, this is encrypted when sent to Zoom, but Zoom can decrypt it.
    — Barath Raghavan, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Despite the high qubit count, there's no need to rush out and re-encrypt all your sensitive data just yet.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Then, all the data that is sent and received will be encrypted using these keys.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • It is based on the key length and the mathematical strength of the algorithm used to encrypt that message.
    — Konstantin Vilk, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Businesses should encrypt all of their data all of the time and automate this process.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 7 July 2021
  • They are encrypted and sent to secure Amazon One servers.
    — oregonlive, 21 June 2023
  • In a worst-case scenario, all your data could be encrypted by a hacker and you could be forced to pay a ransom to get it back.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The blog post stated that the audio is encrypted and stored on the user's phone, but adds that only Uber will have access to the recording.
    — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 20 Nov. 2019
  • Facebook is taking some steps to make sure the transfer of photos to Google is secure, such as encrypting the move end-to-end.
    — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2020
  • Both mental health and vision health data will be encrypted on the app.
    — Victoria Song, The Verge, 5 June 2023
  • In terms of security, Rooms aren’t encrypted as Zoom claims to be.
    — Popular Science, 27 Apr. 2020
  • The public key is used to encrypt messages sent by others; the private key, which is kept secret, is used to decrypt them.
    — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Ransomware hackers who encrypt a victim's data twice at the same time.
    — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 17 May 2021
  • Even for the small portion of content on the app that is encrypted, security experts say the locks are not all that strong.
    — Josh Axelrod, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2024
  • In fact, the downloaded file was a program executable that encrypted the files on the machine.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 30 Apr. 2020
  • These portable apps can encrypt and decrypt files anywhere on your system, not just on the USB.
    — PCMAG, 21 May 2024
  • PDFs can be encrypted and password-protected so that only the right eyes can see them.
    — Stackcommerce Team (sponsored), PCMAG, 14 June 2024

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