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cryptographer

[krip-tah-gruhf-er] / krɪpˈtɑ grəf ər /


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Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn, an American computer-security specialist and cryptographer, served as CEO of Electric Coin Co., which Zcash co-founders formed to develop the coin’s blockchain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

Its history is linked to WhatsApp: the site was founded by cryptographer and entrepreneur Moxie Marlinspike, with an initial $50 million from WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton.

From Barron's ● Apr. 25, 2026

The real breakthrough came from former NSA cryptographer Nick Patterson and researcher Peter Laufer.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 15, 2025

Sarah Meiklejohn, a cryptographer at University College London, said that the investigation’s findings‚ assuming they were error-free, provide empirical confirmation of an “intuition that has been floating around in this space for a while.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2022

Sometimes Elizebeth also worked as a cryptographer, which meant that she was the one coming up with ways of obscuring the plaintext.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

He hired astrophysicists, cryptographers and speech-recognition experts — no Wall Street experience allowed.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 15, 2025

“Our engineers, cryptographers, designers, policy experts and product managers have worked tirelessly to rebuild Messenger features from the ground up.”

From Washington Times ● Dec. 7, 2023

Nock approaches this controversy as a neutral observer, pursuing Horan’s leads as well as the path of the cryptographers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2023

More than 50 encoded letters sent by Mary Queen of Scots in the 16th Century have been found and deciphered by an international team of cryptographers.

From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2023

More and more secret communications demanded more one-time pads—and at some point in 1942 or 1943, Soviet cryptographers started making multiple copies of the same pads, to save time.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau




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