decrypted

past tense of decrypt
as in deciphered
to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary language decrypting the Germans' code was one of the Allies' greatest triumphs

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Recent Examples of decrypted Memory pages are automatically encrypted and decrypted on each write or read. Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 22 June 2026 But that data still needs to be decrypted before cloud servers or virtual machines can perform any kind of computation on it. IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2026 Privacy laws do not distinguish between data decrypted yesterday and data decrypted ten years after it was stolen. Lane Sullivan, Forbes.com, 13 Feb. 2026 Were passwords exposed or decrypted? Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 Dec. 2025 Various e-mails sent by Fassih from Dublin were later decrypted by the Dutch police. Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025 That means today’s private videos, stored on cloud platforms or transmitted over the internet, could be decrypted years from now. Yashas Hariprasad, Space.com, 6 Aug. 2025
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deciphered
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  • Uncertainty notwithstanding, the longevity world has glommed onto the notion that the vaginal microbiome is some kind of exotic tealeaf that can be deciphered—and perfected by purchasing the right supplements.
    Sarah DiGregorio, Vanity Fair, 27 July 2026
  • Its successor script, Linea B, was also a mystery until it was deciphered in 1952 by an amateur linguist and cryptographer Michael Ventris with the help of classicist John Chadwick, both building on patterns in the script first identified by classicist Alice Kober.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 23 June 2026

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“Decrypted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decrypted. Accessed 4 Aug. 2026.

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