What's the difference between cryptographer and cypher?

Cryptographer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who writes in cipher, or secret characters.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As cryptographer Matthew Green told the New York Times, 'If we could get $500,000 kicked back to OpenSSL and teams like it, maybe this kind of thing won't happen again."
  • (2) It was great: a sort of cryptographic cowrie shell for virtual fish.
  • (3) For one thing, both denials conspicuously fail to include the most convincing proof of identity: a cryptographic signature already known to be used by Satoshi Nakamoto.
  • (4) Each bitcoin is more cryptographically complex than the previous one, requiring more computational time to "mine" it, and thus investment in electricity and use of computer hardware.
  • (5) However, when internet giants can be convinced to switch on cryptographic protection for the link to their users’ browsers, millions can benefit without ever having to take any action.
  • (6) The most immediate comparison is the Saturday Night Massacre … by firing Comey, Trump is asserting his control over the FBI on the political level.” Malcolm Nance, a former navy cryptographer and author of a book on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, said: “This is a Nixonian move clearly designed to take out the man who was investigating collusion with a foreign power.
  • (7) Read more His claim was backed up by Jon Matonis, one of the founding directors of the Bitcoin Foundation, who said he “had the opportunity to review the relevant data along three distinct lines: cryptographic, social, and technical”.
  • (8) They are widely available and, thanks to things like cryptographic signing, it is possible to download these packages from any server in the world (not just big ones like Github) and verify, with a high degree of confidence, that the software you’ve downloaded hasn’t been tampered with.
  • (9) He was withering on the subject the NSA’s undermining of the US National Institute for Standards in Technology’s cryptography projects, saying it had “radicalised mild-mannered cryptographers.
  • (10) This post was updated to remove a claim that Satoshi Nakamoto frequently cryptographically signed his emails.
  • (11) The vast majority of these passwords would be cracked in next to no time; it’s about the next worst thing you do next to no cryptographic protection at all.” This is the latest in a long line of data breaches that includes the recent TalkTalk hacks , which saw a database of millions of customers being accessed by hackers, leading to phishing attacks and scams.
  • (12) That is because each is unique, and has to be verified by solving the cryptographic problem to be transferred.
  • (13) The reports say that, in addition to undermining all of the mainstream cryptographic software used to protect online commerce, the NSA has been "collaborating with technology companies in the United States and abroad to build entry points into their products".
  • (14) Cryptographers with a conscience are creating some of the emerging privacy-protecting tools and services – Blackphone being one example .
  • (15) They are then run through a cryptographic function known as a hash, which produces a short alphanumeric string of numbers.
  • (16) He had been working for the Admiralty as a cryptographer since 1914 and, disliking rowdy young men, got special permission to work with an all-female team.
  • (17) Thomas Massie, a libertarian-minded Kentucky Republican, has authored an amendment to a forthcoming appropriations bill that blocks any funding for the National Institute of Science and Technology to “coordinate or consult” with the NSA or the Central Intelligence Agency “for the purpose of establishing cryptographic or computer standards that permit the warrantless electronic surveillance” by the spy agencies.
  • (18) "Flame was so advanced that only the world's top cryptographers could be able to implement it."
  • (19) Android 3.0 onwards has offered a setting which will encrypt the phone, using a cryptographic key generated from a user-provided passcode.
  • (20) When properly implemented and secured by relatively long keys, cryptographic algorithms can protect your data so thoroughly that all the computers now in existence, along with all the computers likely to ever be created, could labour until the sun went nova without uncovering the keys by “brute force” – ie trying every possible permutation of password.

Cypher


Definition:

  • (n. & v.) See Cipher.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His bastard Ramsay has shown his colors (whatever color is for sadism), but Roose – who abstains from alcohol and only offers a smirk at Lady Stark here, a frown with Jaime Lannister there – is still a cypher.
  • (2) The keys to each chart are minute, cypher-like instructions, peppered with anecdotes and asides.
  • (3) Turing, frequently referred to as the father of modern computing and artificial intelligence, is best known for his contribution to cracking the code used by the Germans in their Enigma machines during the second world war when he worked for the government code and cypher school at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire.
  • (4) Which is why trying to slot the characters into cyphers for various positions doesn't really work.
  • (5) But Bletchley Park is also the birthplace of modern computing and home to Colossus, the first electronic computer built by the codebreakers in 1943 to crack the Nazi cyphers.
  • (6) References to the role of the Colossus computers in breaking German messages using the Lorenz cypher were clarified to show that they were only a part of the operation.
  • (7) The roll runs includes Audrey Abbot (later Weston), an operator of the bombe machine that helped break the German Enigma cyphers, who worked there from 1942 to 1945, and Anne Zuppinger (later Hill), who recruited, trained and oversaw bombe operators.
  • (8) With dramas like Game Of Thrones this works well, but it's hard to find anything to analyse in the tissue-thin contents of a pretendy talent contest judged by inarticulate hate cyphers.
  • (9) (Two Colossi survived, and moved with GC&CS – the Government Code and Cypher School, newly renamed as GCHQ – to Cheltenham in the 1950s, but they too were dismantled by the end of the decade.)
  • (10) Working in Hut 8 at Bletchley Park, then the home of GCHQ's forerunner, the Government Code and Cypher School, Turing found a way of reading messages sent by the Germans, using a codebreaking machine called the bombe.
  • (11) My father used to say that she had cracked a vital part of a German naval cypher, but all she will say now is that she found a repeat in something and everyone got excited.
  • (12) Optimal conditions have been developed for the isolation and reactivation of highly coupled, demembranated ciliary axonemes from newt lungs [Hard, Cypher, and Schabtach, 1988, Cell Motil.
  • (13) One company commander, given the cypher "Soldier D", described in his statement how a large Protestant crowd surrounded troops who arrested a Catholic man armed with a shotgun.
  • (14) It was at Bletchley Park in February 1944 that the Colossus computers were used to help break German messages coded using the Lorenz cypher, confirming that the Germans had fallen for the deception.
  • (15) Demembranated axonemes isolated from newt lung ciliated cells show a complex beat frequency response to varying [MgATP] and temperature [Hard and Cypher, 1992, Cell Motil.

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