CODE OF VIRGINIA ENCRYPTION USED IN CRIMINAL ACTIVITY (ยง 18.2-152.15) Any person who willfully uses encryption to further any criminal activity shall be guilty of an offense which is separate and distinct from the predicate criminal activity and punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor.”Encryption” means the enciphering of intelligible data into unintelligible form or the deciphering of unintelligible data into intelligible form. HISTORY: 1999, c. 455.