as in to decipher
to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary language
decrypting the Germans' code was one of the Allies' greatest triumphs
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This gives you much more control over who has the final say in decrypting your data.
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Daniel Brame, PCMAG, 27 Jan. 2025
Nation-states are both monitoring and storing global data traffic with the intent of decrypting it at a later date.
—Skip Sanzeri, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
This works because private keys can be used to encrypt messages too, not just decrypt them.
—John Pavlus, WIRED, 15 Dec. 2024
And while they're probably stored in an encrypted form to protect against theft, the platform itself has the keys to decrypt your data and would be able to comply with government requests for it, no matter how old the information is.
—Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 1 Jan. 2025
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Daniel Brame, PCMAG, 27 Jan. 2025
Nation-states are both monitoring and storing global data traffic with the intent of decrypting it at a later date.
—Skip Sanzeri, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
This works because private keys can be used to encrypt messages too, not just decrypt them.
—John Pavlus, WIRED, 15 Dec. 2024
And while they're probably stored in an encrypted form to protect against theft, the platform itself has the keys to decrypt your data and would be able to comply with government requests for it, no matter how old the information is.
—Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 1 Jan. 2025
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“Decrypt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decrypt. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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