decrypt
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Synonyms & Antonyms for decrypt
Synonyms
break, crack, decipher, decode
Antonyms
cipher, code, encipher, encode, encrypt
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The malware doesn't break the underlying encryption, but these programs still decrypt data on the sender and receiver's devices. — Wired, "Mysterious iOS Attack Changes Everything We Know About iPhone Hacking," 30 Aug. 2019 In a real ransomeware attack, a hacker will typically demand a small amount of money in exchange for the key that will decrypt the files â usually a small enough amount that people would rather just pay to get rid of the inconvenience. — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, "Security researchers find that DSLR cameras are vulnerable to ransomware attack," 11 Aug. 2019 But clients who donât want to give in to extortion are susceptible to firms that claim to have their own methods of decrypting files. — Renee Dudley, ProPublica, "Sting Catches Another Ransomware Firm â Red Mosquito â Negotiating With âHackersâ," 24 June 2019 If all that wasn't hassle enough, sometimes these attackers are even providing technical support in decrypting files. — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, "A tale of two cities: Why ransomware will just get worse," 21 June 2019 In 2012, Jay Olson and Timothy Ralph, both physicists at the University of Queensland in Australia, laid out a procedure to encrypt data so that it can be decrypted only at a specific moment in the future. — Quanta Magazine, "Quantum Weirdness Now a Matter of Time," 19 Jan. 2016 As a result, messages that pass through Signalâs central servers can be decrypted only by the recipientsâ private key, which is stored only on the recipientsâ individual devices. — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, "Police decrypt 258,000 messages after breaking pricey IronChat crypto app," 7 Nov. 2018 Once the sender certificate is decrypted, message recipients can use it to mathematically verify the validity of the sender. — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, "New Signal privacy feature removes sender ID from metadata," 30 Oct. 2018 Eve sat in the middle, trying to decrypt the messages. — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, "Google's AI Taught Itself To Encrypt Messages," 29 Oct. 2016These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'decrypt.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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