How to Use cryptographer in a Sentence

cryptographer

noun
  • Most cryptographers are less alarmed.
    — Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • Frank and Fannie’s son Charles had served in the Army as a cryptographer.
    — Washington Post, 7 May 2022
  • Dunin is a master cryptographer and runs a helpful and in-depth website all about Kryptos.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 3 Feb. 2020
  • In light of this, cryptographers are scrambling to find a new quantum-proof security standard.
    — Quanta Magazine, 15 May 2017
  • Benaloh, still at Microsoft, would be the lead cryptographer.
    — Benjamin Wofford, Wired, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Because Ed actually runs an email list-serve of about 80 cryptographers from around the world.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 15 Jan. 2026
  • And that backdoor could be very, very difficult to detect, cryptographers note, even on the closest inspection.
    — WIRED, 15 June 2023
  • In time, her abilities helped her rise to become a cryptographer, unscrambling messages from the German navy.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Mathematicians and cryptographers alike have long suspected this is the case.
    — Quanta Magazine, 17 Dec. 2018
  • Whitfield Diffie is a cryptographer and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography.
    — Whitfield Diffie, Scientific American, 30 June 2020
  • For cryptographers, who need to race ahead of quantum computers, the uncertainty is concerning.
    — Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
  • But Signal stands apart, both for its rich features and the fact that its code has been open source for years, meaning cryptographers have had plenty of opportunities to poke and prod it for flaws.
    — Brian Barrett, Wired, 6 June 2020
  • The company has been criticised by cryptographers for a decade for building its own protocol and for weaker default protections, and the flaw is consistent with that record.
    — Susie Violet Ward, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • There was a maxim in cryptography, often referred to as Schneier’s law after the cryptographer Bruce Schneier.
    — Andy Greenberg, Ars Technica, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Matt Green, a cryptographer at Johns Hopkins University, puts it in starker terms.
    — Andy Greenberg, Wired, 6 Apr. 2021
  • These abilities — or at least those emanating from the same area of the brain — also found expression in Candela’s parallel life as a cryptographer.
    — David Netto, Curbed, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Those anxieties had been acutely primed just a month earlier by a blog post written by the famed cryptographer and security guru Bruce Schneier.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
  • This case has stumped cryptographers and police and the most recent theories seem to revolve around autopsies and DNA testing.
    — Angela Chen, The Verge, 21 May 2018
  • To guard against the possibility that their protocols are based on faulty assumptions, some quantum cryptographers search for even more basic principles to build upon.
    — Matt Von Hippel, Wired News, 23 May 2026
  • Now, a pair of cryptographers have built a new LLL-style algorithm with a significant boost in efficiency.
    — Madison Goldberg, Quanta Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Kocher, the former Rambus cryptographer who helped discover Spectre, thinks this is just the beginning of the industry's woes.
    — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Since no one knows which ones, though, some renowned cryptographers are questioning the trustworthiness of all NIST standards.
    — Nadia Heninger, Foreign Affairs, 23 Oct. 2013
  • To develop a secure encryption method, cryptographers look for mathematical problems that are easy to solve but difficult to undo.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Even the Zodiac Killer's ciphers, which followers of the case and cryptographers have studied for years, may not actually contain many clues.
    — Jessica Sager, People.com, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The company also said head cryptographer, David Schwartz, would assume the role of chief technology officer.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 11 July 2018
  • In light of recent revelations, though, many cryptographers are skeptical of the NSA's motives.
    — Nadia Heninger, Foreign Affairs, 23 Oct. 2013
  • Since officially forming its blockchain group just eight months ago, Facebook has sent staffers to crypto conferences around the world to recruit researchers, cryptographers, and top academics in the field.
    — Casey Newton, The Verge, 15 Dec. 2018
  • In an approach that is reminiscent of the parabola calculator, cryptographers use points along a special curve in combination with simple arithmetic to create a key.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Both professional and amateur cryptographers (including codebreakers in both World Wars) have pored over the text, hoping to crack the puzzle.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Matthew Green, a cryptographer and professor at Johns Hopkins University, was one of the first to outline the problem in a blog post this weekend.
    — James Vincent, The Verge, 24 Sep. 2018

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