cryptophone

A secure telephone that provides security against eavesdropping and electronic surveillance.

Noun

  1. A secure telephone that provides security against eavesdropping and electronic surveillance.
    • The bulky refrigerator-size boxes that scrambled the phone discussions of Roosevelt and Churchill are just steps from the hefty cryptophones of the 1970s and more modern versions. - 2008 March 12, Peter Wayner, “Psst!...

Origin

From crypto- + phone.

Forms

cryptophones