n. A person who is an expert on creating codes and cyphers. Someone who studies cryptology.
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n. One who writes in cipher, or secret characters.
n. one who studies methods for encoding and decoding messages; one who studies cryptography.
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n. decoder skilled in the analysis of codes and cryptograms
Word Usage
"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."