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encrypt

convert ordinary language into code

In a sentence

Six example sentences with encrypt, each labelled with its topic.

  • The app will encrypt every message before it leaves your phone, so the server stores only unreadable blocks.

    Technology

  • Clinics must encrypt patient files at rest, because a stolen laptop should reveal nothing but scrambled characters.

    Medicine

  • Before emailing the merger terms, the analyst had to encrypt the spreadsheet and phone the password separately.

    Business

  • Caesar would encrypt his orders by shifting every letter three places, a cipher a modern child breaks in minutes.

    History

  • Banks encrypt every transfer before it leaves the branch, so an intercepted message shows only scrambled digits.

    Finance

  • The studio decided to encrypt save files after players learned to edit their gold balance with a text editor.

    Gaming

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