How to Use encrypt in a Sentence

encrypt

verb

• The software will encrypt the message before it is sent.
• They’re used to encrypt messages and study the shapes of viruses.
  — Leila Sloman, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2024
• City employees were ordered to turn off their computers to stop a virus from spreading and encrypting data.
  — Stephen Deere, ajc, 20 June 2018
• Sites like Fox, Time, and Newsweek do encrypt some pages, such as those that accept payments for subscriptions.
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 6 July 2018
• The feature allows you to add a combination of text, photos, and videos to your profile, which are encrypted in the same way as your messages.
  — Jon Porter, The Verge, 1 Nov. 2018
• But there are compelling reasons to encrypt news sites that go beyond payment security or getting Google to raise a search score.
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 6 July 2018
• The investigation revealed that not only was data encrypted by the attackers, but it was also stolen.
  — Lars Daniel, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
• Video calls through Portal are encrypted and never recorded or seen by Facebook, Camargo said.
  — Kurt Wagner, Recode, 8 Oct. 2018
• Wyden wrote a letter to Tinder back in February requesting that the company encrypt photos.
  — Ashley Carman, The Verge, 29 June 2018
• Between those adapters, engineers have also built a system to encrypt the data in transit, issuing forward-secret keys for each transaction.
  — Russell Brandom, The Verge, 20 July 2018
• And as currency generated by crypto-jacking goes straight into a hacker’s encrypted wallet, the cyber-criminal leaves less of a trail.
  — Robert Stevens, chicagotribune.com, 4 July 2018
• There’s also a new Ransomware Remediation feature, which attempts to revert any files that were encrypted due to ransomware.
  — Ian Paul, PCWorld, 13 Sep. 2018
• Most network traffic to Google services — 94 percent as of Oct. 27 — is encrypted, which shields it from prying eyes even if diverted.
  — Frank Bajak, The Seattle Times, 14 Nov. 2018
• They’re used to encrypt messages (opens a new tab) and study the shapes of viruses (opens a new tab).
  — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 6 Sep. 2024
• Roche said that it could bee seen on the screen that someone was encrypting the files and that the city could not open them.
  — cleveland.com, 10 July 2019
• Those PDFs claim to be encrypted and come with a link to decrypt or access the file.
  — Joe Hindy, PCMAG, 14 Aug. 2024
• Tap or click for methods to encrypt your emails and messages.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2022
• The song can’t be shared as the link is encrypted — it can only be heard by scanning the garment.
  — Maghan McDowell, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2023
• This required the company to find new ways to encrypt data and keep it safe.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023
• Hackers stole vast amounts of the firm's data and encrypted it, putting it under lock and key.
  — Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Nov. 2019
• To verify when voice and video calls are end-to-end encrypted, check the Voice/Video Details and look for a green lock icon.
  — Emily Dreibelbis, PCMAG, 18 Sep. 2024
• This exchange gives both your device and the tower the keys to unlock the data that is about to be encrypted.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 10 Aug. 2019
• French says the map of your home is encrypted and stored securely in Amazon’s cloud.
  — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2023
• These are low-tech ways of encrypting the voter’s choices.
  — Quanta Magazine, 12 Mar. 2020
• And then the sender can use that public key to encrypt their message, send it over the unsecured channel.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2024
• By default, this is encrypted when sent to Zoom, but Zoom can decrypt it.
  — Barath Raghavan, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2023
• Despite the high qubit count, there's no need to rush out and re-encrypt all your sensitive data just yet.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2022
• Then, all the data that is sent and received will be encrypted using these keys.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 15 Sep. 2023
• It is based on the key length and the mathematical strength of the algorithm used to encrypt that message.
  — Konstantin Vilk, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
• Businesses should encrypt all of their data all of the time and automate this process.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 7 July 2021

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024