{"id":704,"date":"2021-09-15T19:15:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T13:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/?p=704"},"modified":"2026-02-14T20:31:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T15:01:30","slug":"how-to-enable-text-message-encryption-feature-for-your-sms-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/how-to-enable-text-message-encryption-feature-for-your-sms-account\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Enable Text Message Encryption Feature for your SMS Account?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is Text Message Encryption?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Text Message Encryption is the process of encoding information with a Secret Key to prevent anyone other than its intended recipient from viewing it. Encryption converts text message content into scrambled text. The unreadable text can only be decoded with a secret key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Right-to-privacy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Right-to-privacy-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"Text Message Encryption\" class=\"wp-image-705\" title=\"Text Message Encryption\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Right-to-privacy-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Right-to-privacy-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Right-to-privacy-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Right-to-privacy-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Right-to-privacy.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What is Secret Key?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A secret key is the piece of information or parameter that is used to encrypt and decrypt text messages in a symmetric or secret-key, encryption. The secret key is encrypted in database and only decrypted when you login to your account. So our team also cannot view your actual secret key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">W<strong>hy Text Message Encryption?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is an option for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\">SMS Gateway Center<\/a>&#8216;s customers who want to keep their messages hidden from everyone else&#8217;s eyes. We take privacy seriously and provided you with this feature. Mostly banks and other important text messages dependent companies opt for this feature and protect their content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How to Enable Text Message Encryption Feature?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/text-encryption.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"492\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/text-encryption-1024x492.png\" alt=\"Text Encryption UI\" class=\"wp-image-706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/text-encryption-1024x492.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/text-encryption-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/text-encryption-768x369.png 768w, https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/text-encryption-1536x739.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/text-encryption.png 1876w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Login to your account <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smsgateway.center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Go to Sidebar -> My Account -> Security.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On the page, Click on <strong>Text Encryption<\/strong> Tab.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Before generating secret token, you need to Set <strong>Enable Message Encryption<\/strong> to <strong>Yes<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you want to encode your content through out the system such as database, UI delivery report. Then Set <strong>System Message Encryption<\/strong> to <strong>Yes<\/strong>. <em>Note: If you are enabling this, then you need not to enable, <strong>DLR Message Encryption<\/strong><\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you have not enabled <strong>System Message Encryption<\/strong> to <strong>Yes<\/strong> then you can enable <em><strong>DLR Message Encryption<\/strong><\/em> to <strong>Yes<\/strong>. This option does not encode text message in the database, but when you view or download report then your data will be scrambled and you will need a secret key to decode the same.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click on Save Changes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Now, move to next grid row on the same page, Click on <strong>Generate<\/strong> button to create your new secret key. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You are all set now. Take secret key, encrypt your text messages and start sending SMS via API with encoded content.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Note: While sending SMS from API, you have to set parameter <strong>encrypt=true<\/strong> along with other SMS API parameters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Do you provide API to Encrypt and Decrypt Text Messages?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, we do have API to encrypt your plain text message. You can get sample code <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smsgateway.center\/docs\/api\/msg\/encrypt\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can decrypt your encoded text message with our API. You can get sample code <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smsgateway.center\/docs\/api\/msg\/decrypt\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Do you provide any Sample Script to include in Own Application?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, we have sample script of PHP and Java languages. Contact our team to get this script for free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you want further information about this feature, do contact us. We will be happy to help you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smsgateway.center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sign up<\/a> for free and test this feature with free demo credits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Text Message Encryption? Text Message Encryption is the process of encoding information with a Secret Key to prevent anyone other than its intended recipient from viewing it. Encryption converts text message content into scrambled text. The unreadable text can only be decoded with a secret key. What is Secret Key? 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