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[en-kript]

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verb (used with object)

to encipher or encode.

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Origin:
1940–45; en-¹ + -crypt (abstracted from cryptic, cryptography, etc.), modeled on encode

Related forms

en·cryp·tion, en·cryp·ta·tion, noun

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Princeton-based researchers broke the encryption system by freezing memory chips, permitting them to read the software.

In fact, repeat the encryption enough times and you will actually decrypt the message.

The idea of encryption is to make a message unreadable, except to the receiver.

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Princeton-based researchers broke the encryption system by freezing memory chips, permitting them to read the software.

In fact, repeat the encryption enough times and you will actually decrypt the message.

The idea of encryption is to make a message unreadable, except to the receiver.

We use data encryption technology to help protect against loss, misuse or alteration of your credit card information.

Virtually all encryption methods used for highly sensitive data are vulnerable to one quantum algorithm or another.

As long as you don't write your own algorithm, secure encryption is easy.

The episode recalls earlier acts of online rebellion against the encryption that protects media files from piracy.

The research was supposed to be about developing a method for decoding all existing encryption codes.

He never revealed the encryption code or the program he used to defeat it.

Encryption on the internet is not unlike your typical lock and key combination.

Seagate has recently begun selling drives with hardware encryption abilities.

Dropbox possesses the encryption key to every user's cloud locker, as in the first sort of gated community.

Now a new approach to computer encryption could help protect the files of stolen laptops.

Researchers have discovered a significant flaw in the encryption technique used in the newest cellular telephones.

Wider use of encryption might seem an obvious answer.

The encryption used by secure websites relies on tenuous relationships.

To this day, no other encryption scheme is known to be unbreakable.

Sometimes mediocre encryption is better than strong encryption, and sometimes no encryption is better still.

The detective routinely recorded his own calls, and the government has not faced the same encryption problems with those.

The second circuit handles decompression and encryption.

E-mail encryption is a good idea that hasn't taken hold, mainly because it's such a pain to use.

Sound network design and strong encryption can reduce the risk and consequences of data breach.

Now, it's up to developers and coders to move on with their own projects, safely in possession of the console's encryption keys.

The internet offers tutorials teaching how to break e-book encryption or extract the text in other sneaky ways.

They are increasingly using encryption to cover their tracks.

However, the computing power and software needed for strong encryption was out of reach to those pioneers.

Until they were formulated, nonsecret encryption would be nothing more than a theoretical curiosity.

There may be implications for data encryption technology, too.

The state investigators told the court that the encryption did not prevent them from getting the plain text of the messages.

If the encryption scheme in use was weak, or the intruders compromised the crypto keys, then the card numbers are still at risk.

Sony has threatened to sue anybody who posts the hacking tools or the encryption key.

Advances in encryption cracking that are likely to occur over that time period would make the encryption obsolete, he said.

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World English Dictionary

encrypt (ɪnˈkrɪpt)

—vb
1.	to put (a message) into code
2.	to put (computer data) into a coded form
3.	to distort (a television or other signal) so that it cannot be understood without the appropriate decryption equipment

[C20: from en-¹ + crypt, as in crypto-]

en'crypted

—*adj*

en'cryption

—n

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Word Origin & History

encrypt

1975 in computer sense, from en- + crypt (see crypto-). Related: Encrypted; encrypting.

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Science Dictionary

encrypt

(ěn-krĭpt) Pronunciation Key
To alter information using a code or mathematical algorithm so as to be unintelligible to unauthorized readers.

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Cultural Dictionary

encryption definition

The process of encoding a message so that it can be read only by the sender and the intended recipient. Encryption systems often use two keys, a public key, available to anyone, and a private key that allows only the recipient to decode the message. (See also cryptography.)

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Computing Dictionary

encryption definition

algorithm, cryptography
Any procedure used in cryptography to convert plaintext into ciphertext (encrypted message) in order to prevent any but the intended recipient from reading that data.
Schematically, there are two classes of encryption primitives: public-key cryptography and private-key cryptography; they are generally used complementarily. Public-key encryption algorithms include RSA; private-key algorithms include the obsolescent Data Encryption Standard, the Advanced Encryption Standard, as well as RC4.
The Unix command crypt performs a weak form of encryption. Stronger encryption programs include Pretty Good Privacy and the GNU Privacy Guard.
Other closely related aspects of cryptograph include message digests.
(2003-04-12)

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