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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are encrypting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an ongoing action of encryption in the present tense.
Example: "The team are encrypting the sensitive data to ensure its security."
Alternatives: "are securing" or "are encoding".
Dictionary
are encrypting
verb
To conceal information by means of a code or cipher.
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Conversely, though, major players are starting to regard privacy as a selling point: Google and others are encrypting ever more of their traffic, and even enhancing privacy controls over which information the search and social giants store.
So it is still at incredibly low numbers that are encrypting at rest, although most of them are encrypting in transit.
By connecting with a VPN, you are encrypting your data before it sends so that no one can skim it for information like your Social Security number.
The social media trend of sharing police scanner talk is one reason many police departments are encrypting their dispatch radio broadcasts.
Read it -- but the bottom line is that Google, Microsoft, Facebook and the lot are encrypting all of their (read: our) communications so that government spy agencies, anywhere, with the focus on the USA, can no longer simply intercept our emails, posts, whatever, and do what spy agencies do -- that is, spy on us.
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The rest, some 220.000, are encrypted for various reasons.
They need to ask whether the keys themselves are encrypted.
Apple's iPhone and iPads are encrypted by default, while its iMessage service is encrypted end-to-end.
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