decrypt
pronunciation
How to pronounce decrypt in British English:
UK [di:ˈkrɪpt]
How to pronounce decrypt in American English:
US [di'krɪpt]
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- Verb:
- convert code into ordinary language
Word Origin
- decrypt (v.)
- "to solve a cryptogram," 1936, from de- + cryptogram. Related: Decrypted; decrypting.
Example
- 1. The german enigma machine was an electro-mechanical device used to encrypt and decrypt secret messages during world war ii .
- 2. Modern ones look for the small chunk of code necessary to decrypt the virus , which is harder to tinker with .
- 3. If you figure out how to read message 1 more accurately , then your ability to decrypt message 2 becomes more limited .
- 4. But this announcement that they are able to decrypt the files on behalf of the government contradicts their prior public statements .
- 5. It works by generating two mathematically related keys in such a way that the encrypting key cannot be used to decrypt a message and vice versa .