单词 | encrypt |
释义 | encryptv. transitive. To convert (data, a message, etc.) into cipher or code, esp. in order to prevent unauthorized access; to conceal in something by this means. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > code, cipher > express in code [verb (transitive)] > convert into code code1873 encipher1885 encode1919 encrypt1950 1950 in Webster Add. 1966 T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 vi. 179 He might himself have discovered The Tristero, and encrypted that in the will. 1975 Aviation Week 11 Aug. 52/1 USAF would be able to convert reconnaissance pictures rapidly for computer enhancement and encrypt the data for transmission to remote field terminals. 1977 New Scientist 3 Feb. 277 New privacy legislation may make it mandatory..to encrypt confidential data about individuals. 1984 Sci. Amer. Apr. 72/2 The information the brain requires is encrypted in the intensity array provided by photoreceptors. 1988 I. Peterson Math. Tourist ii. 39 The sender of secret information must have a key for encrypting messages and the receiver a key for decrypting those messages. Derivatives enˈcrypted adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > code, cipher > [adjective] ciphered1611 characterical?a1617 cryptogrammic1860 encrypted1958 enciphered1959 1958 Time 18 Aug. 10/2 About 36 hours later Nautilus broke radio silence to send off a three-word encrypted signal to the Navy. 1967 N. S. M. Cox & M. W. Grose Organization Bibliogr. Rec. by Computer iv. 88 The encrypted text is an encoded list of all dictionary entries in this document. 1977 New Yorker 29 Aug. 60/3 Using flaws in the operating system as entry points, they got access..to files containing the master list of encrypted passwords. 1988 D. Welsh Codes & Cryptogr. vii. 105 The encrypted string C = e (M, K) is called the cipher. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1950 |
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