How to Use encryption in a Sentence
encryption
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
The Ring Car Cam also supports optional video end-to-end encryption.
— Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 5 Jan. 2023 -
The premium suite, reviewed here, just adds password management and encryption, and both come up a bit short.
— PCMAG, 22 Jan. 2024 -
When end-to-end encryption will become the default standard for all users remains unclear.
— PCMAG, 23 Jan. 2023 -
The Deeper Connect Air takes care of your cybersecurity by giving you top-notch protection with military-grade encryption.
— New Atlas, 1 Oct. 2024
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