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CRYPTOGRAPHE [8 records]

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Record 1 - external organization data 2022-07-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - National Occupational Classification (NOC)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Classification nationale des professions (CNP)

Spanish

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Record 2 2018-07-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • IT Security
DEF

A person who invents or solves codes and ciphers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Sécurité des TI

Spanish

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Record 3 2015-09-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Encryption and Decryption
  • Data Transmission
  • IT Security
  • Electronic Systems
CONT

Cipher devices or machines have commonly been used to encipher and decipher messages. The first cipher device appears to have been employed by the ancient Greeks around 400 BC for secret communications between military commanders. ... Advances in radio communications and electromechanical technology in the 1920s brought about a revolution in cryptodevices -- the development of the rotor cipher machine. ... Since the early 1970s, cryptologists have adapted major developments in microcircuitry and computer technology to create new, highly sophisticated forms of cryptodevices and cryptosystems ....

Key term(s)
  • crypto device

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chiffrage et déchiffrage
  • Transmission de données
  • Sécurité des TI
  • Ensembles électroniques
DEF

Instrument, appareil ou machine permettant de procéder aux opérations de chiffrement et de déchiffrement des informations.

OBS

cryptographe : s'emploie surtout en parlant d'une machine; le terme désigne aussi la personne chargée des opérations de chiffrement.

Spanish

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Record 4 2000-09-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Position and Functional Titles (Armed Forces)
  • Encryption and Decryption

French

Domaine(s)
  • Postes et fonctions (Forces armées)
  • Chiffrage et déchiffrage

Spanish

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Record 5 1999-07-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • IT Security
CONT

The cipher expert analyzes secret coding systems and decodes messages for military, diplomatic or law-enforcement agencies: Examines secret messages for characteristics that reveal coding system employed in message. Analyzes message, using formulas, code books, chemicals, computer technology, mechanical devices, and knowledge of commonly-used coding keys.

Key term(s)
  • computer cracker
  • cracker
  • code cracker

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Sécurité des TI
CONT

Le cryptographe analyse des systèmes de codes secrets et déchiffre des messages pour des organismes militaires, diplomatiques ou policiers. Étudie des messages secrets pour y déceler les caractéristiques qui révèlent le code utilisé dans le message. Analyse un message en utilisant des formules, des livres de codes, des produits chimiques, la technique des ordinateurs, des appareils mécaniques et sa connaissance des clefs des codes d'usage courant.

Spanish

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Record 6 1997-12-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Encryption and Decryption
  • Data Transmission
  • IT Security
CONT

According to Bengt Beckman the worlds first cryptomachine was swedish... The machine, called in 18th century swedish: "Chiffre-Machinen", consisted of 57 wheels mounted on a common shaft. These wheels were housed in an oblong cylinder. On half of the circumference of each wheel, the normal ordered alphabet was engraved, and on the other half numbers between 0 and 99 were likewise engraved, but in mixed order, with each of the 57 wheels having their own mixed sequence. On one side, along the length of the cylinder, was a slot wide enough to allow one letterposition of all the 57 wheels to be seen, and on the opposite side a similar slot allowed a row of 57 figures to show themselves.

CONT

Cipher devices and cipher machines ... range in complexity from simple rotating concentric disks ... to large machines and electrically operated cipher teleprinters.

Key term(s)
  • cipher engine

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chiffrage et déchiffrage
  • Transmission de données
  • Sécurité des TI
DEF

Machine servant à la cryptographie.

OBS

Aujourd'hui, on utilise de plus en plus des machines à chiffrer. Celles-ci utilisent des procédés ou algorithmes de chiffrement d'une grande complexité [...]

Key term(s)
  • appareil cryptographique

Spanish

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Record 7 1987-01-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Intelligence (Military)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Renseignement (Militaire)

Spanish

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Record 8 1983-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
OBS

Official title no. 4141-114 of the Canadian Classification of Occupations.

OBS

(CLERICAL)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
OBS

Appellation officielle no. 4141-114 de la Classification canadienne descriptive des professions.

OBS

(BUREAU)

Spanish

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