Cryptographer

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  cryptographer \cryp*tog"ra*pher\ (kr?p-t?g"r?-f?r), n.
     1. One who writes in cipher, or secret characters.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. one who studies methods for encoding and decoding
        messages; one who studies cryptography.


        [PJC] Cryptographic

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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