How to Use cryptographer in a Sentence
cryptographer
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Frank and Fannie’s son Charles had served in the Army as a cryptographer.
—Washington Post, 7 May 2022
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Dunin is a master cryptographer and runs a helpful and in-depth website all about Kryptos.
—Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 3 Feb. 2020
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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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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
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Known as the Indus script, the mysterious text has puzzled scholars, linguists and even cryptographers for decades.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Discover Magazine, 10 Apr. 2023
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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
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Benaloh, still at Microsoft, would be the lead cryptographer.
—Benjamin Wofford, Wired, 15 Sep. 2020
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In light of this, cryptographers are scrambling to find a new quantum-proof security standard.
—Quanta Magazine, 15 May 2017
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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
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And that backdoor could be very, very difficult to detect, cryptographers note, even on the closest inspection.
—WIRED, 15 June 2023
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In time, her abilities helped her rise to become a cryptographer, unscrambling messages from the German navy.
—Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 25 Feb. 2020
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Despite numerous attempts to crack the code by some of the world’s best cryptographers, including Alan Turing and the Bletchley Park team, the contents of the enigmatic book have long remained a mystery.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 30 Jan. 2018
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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
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Whitfield Diffie is a cryptographer and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography.
—Whitfield Diffie, Scientific American, 30 June 2020
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Matt Green, a cryptographer at Johns Hopkins University, puts it in starker terms.
—Andy Greenberg, Wired, 6 Apr. 2021
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Last month, the cryptographer and coder known as Moxie Marlinspike was getting settled on an airplane when his seatmate, a midwestern-looking man in his 60s, asked for help.
—Andy Greenberg, Wired, 14 Feb. 2020
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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
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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
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Now, a pair of cryptographers have built a new LLL-style algorithm with a significant boost in efficiency.
—Madison Goldberg, WIRED, 11 Feb. 2024
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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
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Johns Hopkins cryptographer Matthew Green tweeted that Apple should now talk to people from technical backgrounds, those who work in policy and also the public to help shape its future plans.
—Matt Burgess, Wired, 8 Sep. 2021
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The numbers these researchers used global multithread computing to crack were 240 digits long, and there are infinite prime numbers for cryptographers to choose from for the entire future.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2019
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Lost in the Trees Regev began his academic career in the late 1990s, when cryptographers were searching for a new form of public-key cryptography that wasn’t vulnerable to Shor’s algorithm.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 17 Oct. 2023
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David Schwartz, the chief cryptographer at blockchain startup Ripple Inc., recently saw a developer on his team receive not one, but two, $1 million signing bonus offers.
—Yuliya Chernova, WSJ, 22 May 2018
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Widespread modern encryption methods like RSA, named for the initials of the cryptographers who developed it, rely on the use of hugely complex numbers derived from prime numbers.
—Sam Biddle, The Intercept, 11 May 2017
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Mathematicians and cryptographers alike have long suspected this is the case.
—Quanta Magazine, 17 Dec. 2018
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The company also said head cryptographer, David Schwartz, would assume the role of chief technology officer.
—Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 11 July 2018
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Nock approaches this controversy as a neutral observer, pursuing Horan’s leads as well as the path of the cryptographers.
—Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
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But a full migration will take years, cautions Nick Sullivan, an applied cryptographer at Cloudflare.
—Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 21 Aug. 2019
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To guard against a mathematical breakthrough solving the underlying problem—and breaking the code—cryptographers need access to a variety of algorithm types.
—Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2024
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