English
Alternative spellings
plaintext usually a single compound word in cryptography and computing.
Noun
en-noun|sg=plain text|-
- cryptography Un-encrypted text, text that is readable.
#: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.
Synonyms
computing flat text, cleartext
Antonyms
(cryptography) ciphertext
Adjective
en-adj|pos=plain text|-
- computing Consisting only of plain text.
Synonyms
computing ASCII, cleartext, decoded, unencrypted
Antonyms
computing binary, encoded, encrypted
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