cryptographer
noun
cryp·tog·ra·pher
krip-ˈtä-grə-fər 
: a specialist in cryptography: such as
a
: a clerk who enciphers and deciphers messages
b
: one who devises cryptographic methods or systems
c
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Signal and WhatsApp automatically protect all their messages that way with Signal’s encryption, which cryptographers find among the best that are commercially available.
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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
Some have questioned whether Todd, who would have been in his early twenties when the bitcoin white paper was published, would have been capable of developing a sophisticated peer-to-peer digital cash system—a problem that had confounded many talented and experienced cryptographers before him.
—Joel Khalili, WIRED, 22 Oct. 2024
In the week before the documentary was released, online betting markets had Len Sassaman, a cryptographer who moved in similar online circles as Satoshi, as the most likely candidate to be revealed as the Bitcoin creator.
—Joel Khalili, WIRED, 22 Oct. 2024
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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
Some have questioned whether Todd, who would have been in his early twenties when the bitcoin white paper was published, would have been capable of developing a sophisticated peer-to-peer digital cash system—a problem that had confounded many talented and experienced cryptographers before him.
—Joel Khalili, WIRED, 22 Oct. 2024
In the week before the documentary was released, online betting markets had Len Sassaman, a cryptographer who moved in similar online circles as Satoshi, as the most likely candidate to be revealed as the Bitcoin creator.
—Joel Khalili, WIRED, 22 Oct. 2024
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“Cryptographer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cryptographer. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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