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

: cryptanalyst

Examples of cryptographer in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The modern university is stuffed with lawyers, data scientists, computer scientists, cryptographers, marketing researchers, writers, media professionals, and tech policy mavens. —Ars Staff, ArsTechnica, 17 Apr. 2025

Created by Open Whisper Systems and later championed by the nonprofit Signal Foundation, Signal emerged as the brainchild of cryptographer Moxie Marlinspike. —Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025

For 35 years, amateur and professional cryptographers have tried to crack the code on Kryptos, a majestic sculpture that sits behind CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. —Steven Levy, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2025

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. —Ben Brubaker, WIRED, 30 June 2024

Word History

Etymology

cryptography + -er entry 2

First Known Use

1641, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for cryptographer

• biographer
• demographer
• ethnographer
• geographer
• hydrographer
• lithographer
• photographer
• topographer
• typographer
• bibliographer
• choreographer
• historiographer