How to Use encryption in a Sentence

encryption

noun
  • Block ciphers go back to the 1850s and are the core of most modern encryption schemes.
    George Musser, Quanta Magazine, 6 June 2023
  • At that point, all the server can do is start fresh with a new encryption key.
    Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2024
  • There is an option for users to turn on end-to-end encryption.
    Lauren Goode, WIRED, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Apple’s Health app is one of the most private, with full end-to-end encryption.
    Nicole Nguyen, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2022
  • One of his men claimed to have cracked the cartel’s radio encryption on the other side of the border.
    Keegan Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2023
  • So that is part of the appeal of not just encryption, but end-to-end encryption.
    Lauren Goode, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The account password plays a central role in the encryption process.
    PCMAG, 18 Jan. 2024
  • There is no mention of attempts to crack AES encryption in the paper.
    Joe Salas, New Atlas, 19 Oct. 2024
  • And the encryption only works for one-to-one chats, not group messaging.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 10 Aug. 2022
  • No one yet has found holes in the end-to-end encryption technology.
    Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Meta is one of many companies that have adopted end-to-end encryption in their apps.
    Ben Goggin, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • To his alarm, included in the trove were two private encryption keys.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 11 May 2023
  • Look for end-to-end encryption (preferably as a default).
    Simon Hill, WIRED, 15 Feb. 2023
  • But search doesn’t work if users have turned on end-to-end encryption, which is a higher form of privacy for their videos.
    Paresh Dave, WIRED, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The app has made encryption available to billions of people.
    Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
  • WhatsApp or Signal, end-to-end encryption is not the default.
    WIRED, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Apple says the app is secured with end-to-end encryption and that your logs are stored locally on your device.
    Emma Roth, The Verge, 5 June 2023
  • End-to-end encryption stops crooks from snooping on your video call or stealing your medical records saved in a cloud.
    Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
  • In February, Signal threatened to leave the UK if the new law compelled it to weaken its encryption.
    Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Ransomware is a type of malware the locks up a victim’s files, and the hackers demand payment to provide an encryption key.
    Margi Murphy, Bloomberg.com, 5 Feb. 2023
  • The simplest way of protecting data sets is to restrict their use, such as with encryption.
    IEEE Spectrum, 21 Apr. 2023
  • With end-to-end encryption, not even the platform can access the data, only the sender and recipient.
    Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The problem of decrypting an encryption scheme is also in NP.
    Quanta Magazine, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Google’s Messages app might be getting cross-platform chat encryption in the future.
    Umar Shakir, The Verge, 20 July 2023
  • Under end-to-end encryption, only the sender and recipient of a message can read the contents of a message.
    Peter Guest, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The prospect of encryption — shutting down what residents can hear — worries him.
    Ernesto Londoño, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Those who did had access to the world of iMessage, complete with most of its features - including encryption.
    Michael Dobuski, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2023
  • The messaging app Signal, which uses end-to-end encryption by default, has seen a huge spike in downloads this past week.
    Gilad Edelman, Wired, 16 Jan. 2021
  • Every online bingo site on our list is fully licensed and runs top-notch SSL encryption to keep you safe.
    Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Modern encryption techniques are based on equations with two solutions, each of which produces a prime number – one that can be used to encrypt data and the other to decrypt it.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2024

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