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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Nation-states are both monitoring and storing global data traffic with the intent of decrypting it at a later date.
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Skip Sanzeri, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
This works because private keys can be used to encrypt messages too, not just decrypt them.
—John Pavlus, WIRED, 15 Dec. 2024
And while they're probably stored in an encrypted form to protect against theft, the platform itself has the keys to decrypt your data and would be able to comply with government requests for it, no matter how old the information is.
—Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 1 Jan. 2025
If a sufficiently powerful quantum computer is built, encrypted data stored today could be decrypted in the future, and with quantum chips like Google’s Willow, this seems very likely to happen in 2025.
—Abdo Riani, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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Skip Sanzeri, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
This works because private keys can be used to encrypt messages too, not just decrypt them.
—John Pavlus, WIRED, 15 Dec. 2024
And while they're probably stored in an encrypted form to protect against theft, the platform itself has the keys to decrypt your data and would be able to comply with government requests for it, no matter how old the information is.
—Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 1 Jan. 2025
If a sufficiently powerful quantum computer is built, encrypted data stored today could be decrypted in the future, and with quantum chips like Google’s Willow, this seems very likely to happen in 2025.
—Abdo Riani, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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“Decrypt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decrypt. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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