Synonyms of decrypted

decrypted

verb

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• deciphered
• decoded
• cracked
• translated
• broke
• solved
• rendered
• descrambled
• unscrambled
• unraveled
• figured out
• worked out
• puzzled (out)
• worked
• doped (out)
• unriddled

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• encoded
• encrypted
• coded
• enciphered
• ciphered
• mixed (up)
• garbled
• jumbled (up)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of decrypted

Here, the ciphertext was decrypted to what appeared to be a traceback. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 20 Aug. 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