Encrypt vs. Decrypt — What's the Difference?

To put into code or cipher.

To decipher.

(Computers) To alter (data) using a mathematical algorithm so as to make the data unintelligible to unauthorized users while allowing a user with a key or password to convert the altered data back to its original state.

To decode.

To conceal information by means of a code or cipher.

A deciphered or decoded message.

To convert ordinary language into code; to hide the meaning of a message by converting it into a form that cannot be interpreted without knowing the secret method for interpretation, called the key.

(transitive) To convert (an encrypted or coded message) back into plain text.

Convert ordinary language into code;

A decoded communication.

To convert from a coded form into the original; - of communications. Inverse of encrypt.

Convert code into ordinary language