encrypt

[ en-kript ]

/ ɛnˈkrɪpt /

verb (used with object)

Words nearby encrypt

encrinite, encroach, encroachment, encrust, encrustation, encrypt, encryption, enculturate, enculturation, encumber, encumbrance

Origin of encrypt

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

OTHER WORDS FROM encrypt

en·cryp·tion, en·cryp·ta·tion, noun

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Examples from the Web for encryption

Snowden contacted Poitras in mid-January 2013 after failing to connect with Greenwald due to his lack of encryption.
Laura Poitras on Snowden's Unrevealed Secrets|Marlow Stern|December 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And then Glenn finally got on encryption, came on a plane to New York, and off we went.
Laura Poitras on Snowden's Unrevealed Secrets|Marlow Stern|December 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
With the Assange movie, there are sequences like the [Vincente] Minnelli-like visual explorations of an encryption system.
Can Condon's Freak Show Win Broadway?|Tim Teeman|November 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In November 2013, well before U.S. bombs started falling, “ISIS did launch a Web-based encryption tool,” Ahlberg said.
ISIS Keeps Getting Better at Dodging U.S. Spies|Shane Harris, Noah Shachtman|November 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Bloomberg even reported that the NSA did know and had been exploiting the mistake in encryption.
The NSA Shouldn’t Stockpile Web Glitches|Richard Clarke, Peter Swire|April 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST

British Dictionary definitions for encryption

encrypt

/ (ɪnˈkrɪpt) /

verb (tr)

to put (a message) into code

to put (computer data) into a coded form

to distort (a television or other signal) so that it cannot be understood without the appropriate decryption equipment

Derived forms of encrypt

encrypted, adjectiveencryption, noun

Word Origin for encrypt

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

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Scientific definitions for encryption

encrypt

[ ĕn-krĭpt ]

To alter information using a code or mathematical algorithm so as to be unintelligible to unauthorized readers.

Cultural definitions for encryption

encryption

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.)