as in deciphered
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 decrypted
Memory pages are automatically encrypted and decrypted on each write or read.
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Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
22 June 2026
But that data still needs to be decrypted before cloud servers or virtual machines can perform any kind of computation on it.
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IEEE Spectrum,
30 Apr. 2026
Privacy laws do not distinguish between data decrypted yesterday and data decrypted ten years after it was stolen.
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Lane Sullivan,
Forbes.com,
13 Feb. 2026
Were passwords exposed or decrypted?
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Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
16 Dec. 2025
Various e-mails sent by Fassih from Dublin were later decrypted by the Dutch police.
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Ed Caesar,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
That means today’s private videos, stored on cloud platforms or transmitted over the internet, could be decrypted years from now.
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Yashas Hariprasad,
Space.com,
6 Aug. 2025
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
22 June 2026
But that data still needs to be decrypted before cloud servers or virtual machines can perform any kind of computation on it.
—
IEEE Spectrum,
30 Apr. 2026
Privacy laws do not distinguish between data decrypted yesterday and data decrypted ten years after it was stolen.
—
Lane Sullivan,
Forbes.com,
13 Feb. 2026
Were passwords exposed or decrypted?
—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
16 Dec. 2025
Various e-mails sent by Fassih from Dublin were later decrypted by the Dutch police.
—
Ed Caesar,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
That means today’s private videos, stored on cloud platforms or transmitted over the internet, could be decrypted years from now.
—
Yashas Hariprasad,
Space.com,
6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for decrypted
deciphered
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Its successor script, Linea B, was also a mystery until it was deciphered in 1952 by an amateur linguist and cryptographer Michael Ventris with the help of classicist John Chadwick, both building on patterns in the script first identified by classicist Alice Kober.
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The signature was deciphered with the help of AI, and specialists at auction house Lyon & Turnbull were able to confirm that Cadell was the artist.
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