How to Use decrypt in a Sentence

decrypt

verb

• There wasn’t any gap to jump in and get the files decrypted.
  — Michael Kan, PCWorld, 15 May 2017
• Then Kessler’s colleague would transmit a code to decrypt the files.
  — Jacob Bernstein, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2019
• And only the user can retrieve, decode and decrypt the file by means of a private key.
  — Max (chong) Li, Forbes, 7 May 2023
• Reformat it a second time so the next user doesn’t get a prompt to decrypt it.
  — Rob Pegoraro, USA TODAY, 5 July 2018
• 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
• By default, this is encrypted when sent to Zoom, but Zoom can decrypt it.
  — Barath Raghavan, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 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
• In most cases, the data is decrypted every time it is read from disk.
  — Barath Raghavan, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2023
• There’s no evidence that the threat actor could decrypt or use any of the certificates.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2023
• For the truly paranoid, disabling plugins that decrypt messages in the email client is the safest measure.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 14 May 2018
• 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
• As the only one with the private encryption key, only the user can decrypt their files.
  — Dallas News, 28 Oct. 2022
• The public key is used to encrypt messages sent by others; the private key, which is kept secret, is used to decrypt them.
  — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2020
• With both keys, one team could decrypt a transmission that the other team encrypted with its key.
  — Davide Castelvecchi, Scientific American, 16 Feb. 2018
• That's because the keys to decrypt your address book data aren't in memory yet.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 13 Jan. 2021
• Even with the physical phone in custody, the data was encrypted, and Apple didn’t know the password to decrypt it.
  — Russell Brandom, The Verge, 20 Aug. 2018
• The task force tries to steal a cipher machine that can decrypt coded messages, and Townsend tests Liz’s loyalty.
  — Anying Guo, Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2021
• 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
• 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
• The key is required to decrypt the contents of such a database, and there are tools readily available to access the WhatsApp database on a PC.
  — Derek Hawkins, Washington Post, 18 June 2018
• Oh, also, researchers have found a way to decrypt ubiquitous GSM calls.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 17 Aug. 2019
• 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
• But the developer who found them was able to decrypt the information.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 12 Aug. 2021
• The Oblivious resolver has the key needed to decrypt the request but no information about who placed it.
  — Barath Raghavan, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2023
• To decrypt a victim's disk, threat actors need the installation ID.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 28 June 2017
• This add-on feature provides client-side encryption, which means that only the user can decrypt stored files.
  — Dallas News, 28 Oct. 2022
• Using one, a receiver can decrypt a message which has been encrypted with the key in question.
  — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
• The malware encrypts data on a PC and shows users a note demanding $300 in bitcoin to have their data decrypted.
  — Michael Kan, PCWorld, 12 May 2017
• Knowing what the prime numbers were would allow someone to discover the key, and decrypt the messages encoded with them.
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 29 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024