Spies & Spying Personality Profiling: Cryptologists

‍From The Psychology of Spies and Spying by Adrian Furnham and John Taylor.

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Cryptologists are highly specialized and are responsible for developing encryption methods to ensure communications and stores of data are secure and not vulnerable to hostile electronic attack.

They also analyze the crypt used by other governments and organizations with a view to breaking it. 

There are many commercial companies that provide sophisticated encryption services, but larger nations have their own Cryptologists who develop their own custom-built encryption software.

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Spies & Spying: Psychological profile notes on Cryptologists ‍

Like Hackers, Cryptologists are usually very intelligent individuals with expertise in math, computer science, and physics. They need to be highly logical and good at deduction. Many love games like bridge, chess, and computer games of all sorts.
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They also have to be diligent, careful, and reliable. The good ones are known to be scrupulously accurate and precise in all their actions. Most, however, are rather introverted and not particularly socially skilled; but then they do not have to be; most are loners in their work and social life which is fine.

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Spies & Spying: Cryptologist essentials ‍

The three essentials for a Cryptologist are:

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Spies & Spying: Real-life Cryptologists

One of the great Cryptologists was Herbert O. Yardley, an American who developed crypt at the beginning of the 20th century. 

The 2010 Encyclopedic Guide to the National Security Agency provides a wealth of information on the subject.

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Excerpt courtesy of The Psychology of Spies and Spying by Adrian Furnham and John Taylor.‍

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