Examples of encrypt in a Sentence
Sandra Gutierrez G., Popular Science, 13 Sep. 2023
The Nazis encrypted their messages with an Enigma machine.
—Logan Smith, CBS News, 5 Sep. 2023
Royal, the ransomware group city officials have identified as the culprit of the cyberattack, was encrypting files and made ransom requests, according to the slideshow.
—Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2023
Are backup copies of your messages automatically encrypted, with no option for the app company to unscramble them?
—Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023
Your texts in Google’s chat app are only end-to-end encrypted if everyone else is using that app.
—Shira Ovide, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Aug. 2023
Spies of apparent Chinese origin did just that, managing to slip fake versions of both Signal and Telegram encrypted messenger apps into Google’s Play store.
—Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 2 Sep. 2023
Storage solutions digitally store and encrypt your crypto assets to protect them from theft or loss.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Aug. 2023
In pCloud, your passwords are encrypted on your device before being sent to pCloud's servers, ensuring they can’t be easily read by others.
—Advertising Content, PCMAG, 10 July 2023
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Word History
en- entry 1 + -crypt (in cryptanalysis, cryptogram), perhaps after decrypt
1944, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Encrypt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/encrypt. Accessed 23 Sep. 2023.
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