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Examples of encrypt in a Sentence
The software will encrypt the message before it is sent.
Recent Examples of encrypt from the Web
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But there are compelling reasons to encrypt news sites that go beyond payment security or getting Google to raise a search score.
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Meanwhile, revelations about data collection and privacy have popularised encrypted messaging applications such as WhatsApp and Wickr.
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In 2016, unidentified hackers encrypted data at MedStar Health hospitals in Maryland and the District of Columbia.
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These tools were never popular, will never be popular, and don’t even encrypt most of the metadata leaked by email.
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In 2018, toymaker VTech was fined US$650,000 for failing to fulfill its promises to encrypt private data and for violating U.S. laws protecting children’s privacy.
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Session tut-tutted over the problems that encrypted phones and other devices cause for law enforcement.
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Wouldn’t actual criminals use other alternatives to encrypt data?
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The only way to protect your data is to encrypt it.
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Origin and Etymology of encrypt
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First Known Use: 1944
in the meaning defined at sense 1
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Definition of encrypt for English Language Learners
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: to change (information) from one form to another especially to hide its meaning
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