Meaning & use
encrypted
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Converted into a coded form to prevent unauthorized access, especially of digital data or communications.
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All customer data is encrypted before being stored on the company's servers.
The journalist sent the encrypted files through a secure messaging app.
A note on using this word
Modern encryption relies on complex mathematical algorithms, but the underlying idea, disguising a message so only intended recipients can read it, dates back to ancient ciphers like the Caesar cipher.
Words with a similar meaning
codedciphered
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Words with an opposite meaning
decryptedunencoded
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