encrypt
verb (used with object)
to convert (a message or the like) into cipher or code.
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
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Balderas confirmed in an email that his office is reviewing claims that the Children, Youth and Families Department has been encrypting and routinely deleting texts.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 28, 2021