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See also: plaintext
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- plaintext usually a single compound word in cryptography and computing.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɛkst
Noun[edit]
- (cryptography) Text or any data that is to be encrypted (as opposed to ciphertext).
- Using the sophisticated code was useless since the spy merely stole the plain text from the waste basket.
- (computing) Data which consists only of human-readable text, as opposed to machine-readable binary data or formatting markup.
Synonyms[edit]
Antonyms[edit]
- (cryptography) ciphertext
Translations[edit]
unencrypted text — see cleartext
data that consists only of human-readable text
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Adjective[edit]
plain text (not comparable)
- (cryptography, computing) Alternative spelling of plaintext