encrypt
Make digitally unreadable
To encrypt is to convert information into a coded form that only authorized parties can read.
The process protects sensitive data—passwords, messages, financial transactions—from interception: The app encrypts all messages end-to-end.
Encrypted files require a key or password to decrypt and access.
The adjective encrypted describes data in this protected state.
Finite problem-solving procedure
- keyLock-opening device
- plaintextUnencoded readable information
- ciphertextEncoded, unreadable message
- AESSymmetric encryption standard
RSA · DES · symmetric · asymmetric · hash · hashing · salt · nonce
Network access control system
- authenticationConfirming genuine identity
- passwordAuthentication string
- SSLWeb encryption protocol
- TLSNetwork encryption protocol
HTTPS · protection · confidentiality · integrity · authorization · certificate · VPN · end-to-end
Covert information gatherer
- intelligenceMental ability, cognitive capacity
- CIAU.S. foreign intelligence service
- NSAFederal cryptologic intelligence agency
- tradecraftEspionage methods and skills
cryptanalysis · codebreaking · Enigma · Bletchley · classified · top-secret · covert · intercept
Unknown identity state
- confidentialityQuality of protecting secrets
- sensitiveEasily affected emotionally
- identityWho someone is
- hiddenKept out of sight
untraceable · anonymous · private · secrecy · incognito · cloaking · shield · obfuscate
Act of hiding something
- watermarkTranslucent authentication mark
- embeddedSet firmly within something
- metadataDescriptive information about content
- subliminalBelow threshold of awareness
algorithm
Finite problem-solving procedure
- keyLock-opening device
- plaintextUnencoded readable information
- ciphertextEncoded, unreadable message
AES · RSA · DES · symmetric · asymmetric · hash · hashing · salt · nonce · cipher
firewall
Network access control system
- authenticationConfirming genuine identity
- passwordAuthentication string
- SSLWeb encryption protocol
TLS · HTTPS · protection · confidentiality · integrity · authorization · certificate · VPN · end-to-end · zero-knowledge
spy
Covert information gatherer
- intelligenceMental ability, cognitive capacity
- CIAU.S. foreign intelligence service
- NSAFederal cryptologic intelligence agency
tradecraft · cryptanalysis · codebreaking · Enigma · Bletchley · classified · top-secret · covert · intercept · wiretap
anonymity
Unknown identity state
- confidentialityQuality of protecting secrets
- sensitiveEasily affected emotionally
- identityWho someone is
hidden · untraceable · anonymous · private · secrecy · incognito · cloaking · shield · obfuscate · conceal
concealment
Act of hiding something
- privacyprivacy, private, seclusion, confidentiality, solitude
- cipherscipher, Caesar cipher, substitution cipher, ciphertext, plaintext
- codes and cipherscipher, code, decode, ciphertext, plaintext
- computingcomputer, computers, software, hardware, code
- tech termsinternet, code, emoji, wireless, email
- authenticationpassword, login, logout, fingerprint, ID
- message encryptionObscuring content from unauthorized readers
- data encryptionSecuring information through coding
- end-to-end encryptionUnreadable data between sender and recipient
- encrypted messagingCoded digital communication
- encrypted dataInformation rendered unreadable intentionally
- encrypted messageEncoded transmitted information
encryption, encrypted, encrypting, encrypts, encryptions, encrypter, encrypters, encryptable