cryptographer

noun

cryp·tog·ra·pher krip-ˈtä-grə-fər

: a specialist in cryptography: such as

: a clerk who enciphers and deciphers messages

: one who devises cryptographic methods or systems

: cryptanalyst

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Based on the 1981 novel of the same name by Robert Littell, this thriller stars Rami Malek as a CIA cryptographer who blackmails the agency into training him in order to hunt down the terrorists who killed his wife. —

Ben Rosenstock, TIME, 19 Dec. 2024 The algorithm, based on 2021 analysis of cryptographer Peter Schnorr, had been widely debunked two years earlier. —

Ars Technica, 30 Oct. 2024 Signal and WhatsApp automatically protect all their messages that way with Signal’s encryption, which cryptographers find among the best that are commercially available. —

Kevin Collier, NBC News, 4 Dec. 2024 Centuries later, a pseudonymous cryptographer named Satoshi Nakamoto took further inspiration from the fathers’ efforts to decentralize government with a document designed to decentralize money. —

Edan Yago, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for cryptographer