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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But as cryptographers laid the mathematical foundations for this approach to information security in the 1980s, a few researchers discovered that computational hardness wasn’t the only way to safeguard secrets.
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Ben Brubaker, WIRED, 30 June 2024
The master cryptographer secured a meeting with the director of the Military Intelligence Corps and successfully petitioned to have the agency rolled into a permanent peacetime entity funded by the State Department and the War Department.
—Peter Zablocki, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2025
But when designing a new algorithm, cryptographers need to balance security with many other concerns, such as the amount of information two computers need to exchange and the difficulty of the computation required to encrypt and decrypt messages.
—Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
This realization prompted Bos to apply for a Ph.D. program in the lab of renowned cryptographer Arjen Lenstra at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Dec. 2024
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Ben Brubaker, WIRED, 30 June 2024
The master cryptographer secured a meeting with the director of the Military Intelligence Corps and successfully petitioned to have the agency rolled into a permanent peacetime entity funded by the State Department and the War Department.
—Peter Zablocki, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2025
But when designing a new algorithm, cryptographers need to balance security with many other concerns, such as the amount of information two computers need to exchange and the difficulty of the computation required to encrypt and decrypt messages.
—Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
This realization prompted Bos to apply for a Ph.D. program in the lab of renowned cryptographer Arjen Lenstra at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Dec. 2024
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“Cryptographer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cryptographer. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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