How to Use decrypt in a Sentence

decrypt

verb

• No one, not even people who work at Telegram, can decrypt it.
  — PCMAG, 20 May 2024
• Then Kessler’s colleague would transmit a code to decrypt the files.
  — Jacob Bernstein, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2019
• Reformat it a second time so the next user doesn’t get a prompt to decrypt it.
  — Rob Pegoraro, USA TODAY, 5 July 2018
• In most cases, the data is decrypted every time it is read from disk.
  — Barath Raghavan, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2023
• This gives you much more control over who has the final say in decrypting your data.
  — Daniel Brame, PCMAG, 27 Jan. 2025
• Ideally only those with a secret key can decrypt it.
  — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2025
• The hackers will then demand a ransom be paid out in order to have the files decrypted.
  — Allen Kim, CNN, 8 Oct. 2019
• The data can only be decrypted on an endpoint machine with the same key used by the sender.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2023
• And only the user can retrieve, decode and decrypt the file by means of a private key.
  — Max (chong) Li, Forbes, 7 May 2023
• Your associate applies the key again to decrypt the message.
  — PC Magazine, 7 Oct. 2025
• With both keys, one team could decrypt a transmission that the other team encrypted with its key.
  — Davide Castelvecchi, Scientific American, 16 Feb. 2018
• There’s no evidence that the threat actor could decrypt or use any of the certificates.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2023
• That's because the keys to decrypt your address book data aren't in memory yet.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 13 Jan. 2021
• As the only one with the private encryption key, only the user can decrypt their files.
  — Dallas News, 28 Oct. 2022
• Perhaps in the future, spies will be advised to keep a gallon of ethanol handy to decrypt their instructions.
  — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2011
• The strategy is called harvest now, decrypt later.
  — Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
• For the truly paranoid, disabling plugins that decrypt messages in the email client is the safest measure.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 14 May 2018
• A lot of research went into decrypting the character’s equation on the black board.
  — Sarah Belmont, ARTnews.com, 5 Dec. 2024
• The app decrypts the file and loads it into the appropriate editing program.
  — Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 1 July 2026
• Even if the data is encrypted, bad actors can store the data and decrypt it at a later time or hold it for ransom.
  — John Prisco, Forbes, 4 May 2022
• But the developer who found them was able to decrypt the information.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 12 Aug. 2021
• Using one, a receiver can decrypt a message which has been encrypted with the key in question.
  — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
• To decrypt the message, the receiver has to use the same key to reverse the operation.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Jan. 2026
• But clients who don’t want to give in to extortion are susceptible to firms that claim to have their own methods of decrypting files.
  — Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 24 June 2019
• And once a machine has had its data decrypted, that machine is no longer trusted and needs to be wiped and completely rebuilt.
  — Margi Murphy, Bloomberg.com, 5 Feb. 2023
• The access controller will encrypt a datagram to the tag, and the private key will decrypt it and then re-encrypt it and send it back to the reader.
  — Yael Grauer, Ars Technica, 3 Jan. 2018
• Anything encrypted with the public key can be decrypted only with the private key, and vice versa.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Feb. 2020
• This has long been a challenge for researchers because the digital code used to encrypt a photograph has to be the same one used to decrypt it.
  — Harini Barath, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2021
• Were passwords exposed or decrypted?
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 Dec. 2025
• The server does not decrypt the query or even have access to the decryption key, so the client data remains private throughout the process.
  — David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024