Encrypt
verb
To change information into a secret code so others can't understand it, but it can be understood by those who know the code.
Alice asked Bob to encrypt the email before sending it to protect its content.
Often appears as...
- encrypt a message
- encrypt a file
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
verb
To change information into a secret code so others can't understand it, but it can be understood by those who know the code.
Alice asked Bob to encrypt the email before sending it to protect its content.
Often appears as...
- encrypt a message
- encrypt a file
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Digital Protection
Encrypting as a safeguard to keep digital data secure from unauthorized access or theft.
To avoid hackers, we need to encrypt our company's files.
Pro Tip 2/3Privacy Maintenance
Use 'encrypt' when discussing protecting personal or sensitive information in digital form.
Our chat app encrypts messages to ensure privacy.
Pro Tip 3/3Tech Context
Primarily used in technological and computer-related fields.
To secure the network, the IT specialist decided to encrypt all data traffic.
Pro Tip 1/3Digital Protection
Encrypting as a safeguard to keep digital data secure from unauthorized access or theft.
To avoid hackers, we need to encrypt our company's files.
Pro Tip 2/3Privacy Maintenance
Use 'encrypt' when discussing protecting personal or sensitive information in digital form.
Our chat app encrypts messages to ensure privacy.
Pro Tip 3/3Tech Context
Primarily used in technological and computer-related fields.
To secure the network, the IT specialist decided to encrypt all data traffic.
Pro Tip 1/3Digital Protection
Encrypting as a safeguard to keep digital data secure from unauthorized access or theft.
To avoid hackers, we need to encrypt our company's files.
Pro Tip 2/3Privacy Maintenance
Use 'encrypt' when discussing protecting personal or sensitive information in digital form.
Our chat app encrypts messages to ensure privacy.
Pro Tip 3/3Tech Context
Primarily used in technological and computer-related fields.
To secure the network, the IT specialist decided to encrypt all data traffic.
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Video examples
Andy Yen: Think your...
Bob has just sent an encrypted message. What we have here is really just the first step, but it shows that with improving technology, privacy doesn't have to be difficult, it doesn't have to be disruptive. If we change the goal from maximizing ad revenue to protecting data, we can actually make it accessible.
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Interviewing a Former...
While there are white supremacists who may never in real life meet another white supremacist, that doesn't mean they're not connected. The internet is a technological game changer, amplifying lies and weaponizing propaganda like never before. Extremists are flooding social media and encrypted chat
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Can you outsmart a troll...
in manipulating young Greene supporters? First, you could direct people to vote via text, a webpage, or an app, none of which are viable voting platforms in your town. The claim isn’t too far-fetched. An encrypted digital platform could actually seem safer to young people
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How we take back the...
but they're a great example. All companies need to move to an encrypted browsing habit by default for all users who haven't taken any action or picked any special methods on their own. That'll increase the privacy and the rights that people enjoy worldwide.
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Math can save us from...
protect this information and the answer is that we're going to encrypt it and by encrypted I mean that we're going to perform a transformation on the data in the databases using a secret key that will result in something unreadable to
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Your smartphone is a...
And while I think it's absolutely great that companies like Apple are making it easy for people to encrypt, if the only people who can protect themselves from the gaze of the government are the rich and powerful, that's a problem.
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Julian Assange: Why the...
to enact those legal protections. We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it -- which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do,
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Avi Rubin: All your...
If you look closely at this device, it's got a switch for encryption or cleartext. Let me advance the slide, and now I'll go back. You see the difference? This is plain text. This is encrypted.
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How the mysterious dark...
sometimes even mundane. And there are hundreds of activists around the world working on techniques and tools to keep you private online -- default encrypted messaging services.
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All your devices can be...
closely at this device it's got a switch for encryption or clear text let me advance the slide and now I'll go back you see the difference this is plain text this is encrypted
Video examples
Andy Yen: Think your...
Bob has just sent an encrypted message. What we have here is really just the first step, but it shows that with improving technology, privacy doesn't have to be difficult, it doesn't have to be disruptive. If we change the goal from maximizing ad revenue to protecting data, we can actually make it accessible.
Video examples
Interviewing a Former...
While there are white supremacists who may never in real life meet another white supremacist, that doesn't mean they're not connected. The internet is a technological game changer, amplifying lies and weaponizing propaganda like never before. Extremists are flooding social media and encrypted chat
Video examples
Can you outsmart a troll...
in manipulating young Greene supporters? First, you could direct people to vote via text, a webpage, or an app, none of which are viable voting platforms in your town. The claim isn’t too far-fetched. An encrypted digital platform could actually seem safer to young people
Video examples
How we take back the...
but they're a great example. All companies need to move to an encrypted browsing habit by default for all users who haven't taken any action or picked any special methods on their own. That'll increase the privacy and the rights that people enjoy worldwide.
Video examples
Math can save us from...
protect this information and the answer is that we're going to encrypt it and by encrypted I mean that we're going to perform a transformation on the data in the databases using a secret key that will result in something unreadable to
Video examples
Your smartphone is a...
And while I think it's absolutely great that companies like Apple are making it easy for people to encrypt, if the only people who can protect themselves from the gaze of the government are the rich and powerful, that's a problem.
Video examples
Julian Assange: Why the...
to enact those legal protections. We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it -- which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do,
Video examples
Avi Rubin: All your...
If you look closely at this device, it's got a switch for encryption or cleartext. Let me advance the slide, and now I'll go back. You see the difference? This is plain text. This is encrypted.
Video examples
How the mysterious dark...
sometimes even mundane. And there are hundreds of activists around the world working on techniques and tools to keep you private online -- default encrypted messaging services.
Video examples
All your devices can be...
closely at this device it's got a switch for encryption or clear text let me advance the slide and now I'll go back you see the difference this is plain text this is encrypted
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Quote examples
Julian Assange
Australian Activist
We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks.
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Gina Torres
American Actress
When it was announced that I was going to be on 'Castle,' there were immediate messages on all the TV news sites from 'Firefly' fans hoping for a nod to the series - some encrypted business just for them! I can't promise that, but I can say that a few people out there might get a thrill.
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Amber Rudd
British Politician
Encryption plays a fundamental role in protecting us all online. It is key to growing the digital economy and delivering public services online. But, like many powerful technologies, encrypted services are used and abused by a small minority of people.
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Julie Klausner
American Author
The kind of true-life writing that is fun to read - that makes an ally of the reader - is the kind that you are so nervous about putting down on paper that you lock the Word file with a secret password and encrypt it - and all of it.
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Michael J. Saylor
American Businessman
Bitcoin is a swarm of cyber hornets serving the goddess of wisdom, feeding on the fire of truth, exponentially growing ever smarter, faster, and stronger behind a wall of encrypted energy.
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Pavel Durov
Russian Businessman
Telegram is heavily encrypted and privacy-oriented, but we're no friends of terrorists - in fact, every month we block thousands of ISIS-related public channels.
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Tom Cotton
American Politician
The use of encrypted communication and data storage to shield terrorist coordination from intelligence and law-enforcement authorities is known as 'going dark.
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RuPaul
American Entertainer
We encrypt 'Drag Race' with the secret language that kept gay people linked for many years before the '80s.
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Dmitri Alperovitch
Russian Businessman
If someone stole your keys to encrypt the data, it didn't matter how secure the algorithms were.
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Alex Stamos
American Businessman
We are moving to a world where all content is encrypted all the time.
Quote examples
Julian Assange
Australian Activist
We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks.
Quote examples
Gina Torres
American Actress
When it was announced that I was going to be on 'Castle,' there were immediate messages on all the TV news sites from 'Firefly' fans hoping for a nod to the series - some encrypted business just for them! I can't promise that, but I can say that a few people out there might get a thrill.
Quote examples
Amber Rudd
British Politician
Encryption plays a fundamental role in protecting us all online. It is key to growing the digital economy and delivering public services online. But, like many powerful technologies, encrypted services are used and abused by a small minority of people.
Quote examples
Julie Klausner
American Author
The kind of true-life writing that is fun to read - that makes an ally of the reader - is the kind that you are so nervous about putting down on paper that you lock the Word file with a secret password and encrypt it - and all of it.
Quote examples
Michael J. Saylor
American Businessman
Bitcoin is a swarm of cyber hornets serving the goddess of wisdom, feeding on the fire of truth, exponentially growing ever smarter, faster, and stronger behind a wall of encrypted energy.
Quote examples
Pavel Durov
Russian Businessman
Telegram is heavily encrypted and privacy-oriented, but we're no friends of terrorists - in fact, every month we block thousands of ISIS-related public channels.
Quote examples
Tom Cotton
American Politician
The use of encrypted communication and data storage to shield terrorist coordination from intelligence and law-enforcement authorities is known as 'going dark.
Quote examples
RuPaul
American Entertainer
We encrypt 'Drag Race' with the secret language that kept gay people linked for many years before the '80s.
Quote examples
Dmitri Alperovitch
Russian Businessman
If someone stole your keys to encrypt the data, it didn't matter how secure the algorithms were.
Quote examples
Alex Stamos
American Businessman
We are moving to a world where all content is encrypted all the time.
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