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The Collaborative International Dictionary
cryptographer

cryptographer \cryp*tog"ra*pher\ (kr?p-t?g"r?-f?r), n.

  1. One who writes in cipher, or secret characters.

  2. one who studies methods for encoding and decoding messages; one who studies cryptography.

Wiktionary
cryptographer

n. A person who is an expert on creating codes and cyphers. Someone who studies cryptology.

WordNet
cryptographer

n. decoder skilled in the analysis of codes and cryptograms [syn: cryptanalyst, cryptologist]

Usage examples of "cryptographer".

Much could be found on the Carib Queen, but there was, understandably, a dearth of cryptographers.

But each time he gave them a translation, the cryptographers shook their heads in despair.

Strathmore, despite requesting his cryptographers take Saturdays off, seemed to work 365 days a year.

A two-inch sheet of curved one-way glass gave the cryptographers a panorama of the Crypto floor while prohibiting anyone else from seeing inside.

Once dismissed, he probably would start calling other cryptographers asking what they thought was going on.

Because the terminals stayed on around the clock, ScreenLock enabled cryptographers to leave their stations and know that nobody would tamper with their files.

Although the cryptographers believed Gauntlet was constructed for the sole purpose of protecting their code-breaking masterpiece, the Sys-Secs understood the truth.

Strathmore, despite requesting his cryptographers takeSaturdays off, seemed to work 365 days a year.

A two-inch sheet of curved one-way glass gavethe cryptographers a panorama of the Crypto floor while prohibitinganyone else from seeing inside.

Once dismissed, he probably would start callingother cryptographers asking what they thought was going on.

Because the terminals stayed on around the clock,ScreenLock enabled cryptographers to leave their stations and knowthat nobody would tamper with their files.

To quickly fill the enormous demand for the pads, Russian cryptographers likely chose the easiest course: carbon paper.

A team of cryptographers, assembled at Navcomms HQ, soon worked out the counting system, which turned out to be based on twelve digits rather than ten and employed a positional notation with the least significant digit to the left.

Cryptographers seldom locked their terminals except when they left Node 3 for the night.

After Navy cryptographers at Pearl Harbor had decoded and analyzed an intercepted Japanese message, both the message and its analysis were encrypted using an American code (which was restricted to MAGIC) and transmitted to SWPOA.