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Decipherer

Decipherer \De*ci"pher*er\, n. One who deciphers.

WordNet
decipherer
  1. n. the kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text [syn: decoder]

  2. a reader capable of reading and interpreting illegible or obscure text

Usage examples of "decipherer".

This consisted of a single letter, known to both encipherer and decipherer, with which the decipherer could decipher the first cryptogram letter and so get a start on his, work.

Maybe we exaggerated a little, to make fun of the decipherers of messages, but there was a message to begin with.

According to Vigenère, the keyword was the clue to the labyrinth of letters: the golden skein the decipherer unspools as he winds his way backwards and forwards.