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decrypting the Germans' code was one of the Allies' greatest triumphs
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That’s the implication behind the latest warning hitting Windows users around the world, as a Microsoft app is accused of secretly decrypting Chrome tracking cookies, installing Bing search, and of course driving users to switch to Edge.
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Zak Doffman, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
Modern encryption techniques are based on equations with two solutions, each of which produces a prime number – one that can be used to encrypt data and the other to decrypt it.
—David Szondy, New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2024
This works because private keys can be used to encrypt messages too, not just decrypt them.
—John Pavlus, Quanta Magazine, 15 Nov. 2024
These powerful machines could decrypt even the most secure data, posing privacy and security threats.
—David Schiffer, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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Zak Doffman, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
Modern encryption techniques are based on equations with two solutions, each of which produces a prime number – one that can be used to encrypt data and the other to decrypt it.
—David Szondy, New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2024
This works because private keys can be used to encrypt messages too, not just decrypt them.
—John Pavlus, Quanta Magazine, 15 Nov. 2024
These powerful machines could decrypt even the most secure data, posing privacy and security threats.
—David Schiffer, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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“Decrypt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decrypt. Accessed 9 Dec. 2024.
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