as in to decipher
to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary language
decrypting the Germans' code was one of the Allies' greatest triumphs
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Recent Examples of decrypt
The merger comes amid growing threats to personal privacy and calls by lawmakers to mandate backdoors or trapdoors in popular apps and operating systems to allow law enforcement to decrypt data in investigations.
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Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2024
The country had shut down its last major signals intelligence office—and with it the capacity to decrypt and read foreign diplomatic messages—in 1929, at the order of Henry Stimson, the secretary of state.
—Elyse Graham, TIME, 25 Sep. 2024
In recent years, Apple took a major security step by offering its users end-to-end encryption for iCloud backups, in which the company simply holds data in its cloud infrastructure for its customers and doesn't have the technical capability to decrypt and read that data.
—Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2024
And the receiver can use their secret key to decrypt it.
—Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2024
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“Decrypt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decrypt. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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