Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who uses, studies, or develops cryptographic systems and writings.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who writes in cipher, or secret characters.
- noun one who studies methods for encoding and decoding messages; one who studies cryptography.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who is an expert on creating
codes andcyphers . Someone who studiescryptology .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun decoder skilled in the analysis of codes and cryptograms
Etymologies
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Examples
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This was important to Schneier, who in addition to being America's best-known ex-cryptographer is a food writer for an alternative newspaper in Minneapolis, where he lives.
Homeland Insecurity 2002
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This was important to Schneier, who in addition to being America's best-known ex-cryptographer is a food writer for an alternative newspaper in Minneapolis, where he lives.
Homeland Insecurity 2002
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This was important to Schneier, who in addition to being America's best-known ex-cryptographer is a food writer for an alternative newspaper in Minneapolis, where he lives.
Homeland Insecurity 2002
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This was important to Schneier, who in addition to being America's best-known ex-cryptographer is a food writer for an alternative newspaper in Minneapolis, where he lives.
Homeland Insecurity 2002
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This was important to Schneier, who in addition to being America's best-known ex-cryptographer is a food writer for an alternative newspaper in Minneapolis, where he lives.
Homeland Insecurity 2002
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This was important to Schneier, who in addition to being America's best-known ex-cryptographer is a food writer for an alternative newspaper in Minneapolis, where he lives.
Homeland Insecurity 2002
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This was important to Schneier, who in addition to being America's best-known ex-cryptographer is a food writer for an alternative newspaper in Minneapolis, where he lives.
Homeland Insecurity 2002
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This was important to Schneier, who in addition to being America's best-known ex-cryptographer is a food writer for an alternative newspaper in Minneapolis, where he lives.
Homeland Insecurity 2002
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This was important to Schneier, who in addition to being America's best-known ex-cryptographer is a food writer for an alternative newspaper in Minneapolis, where he lives.
Homeland Insecurity 2002
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This was important to Schneier, who in addition to being America's best-known ex-cryptographer is a food writer for an alternative newspaper in Minneapolis, where he lives.
Homeland Insecurity 2002
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