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ˈpleɪnˌtɛkstplain·text
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plaintext
Plaintext refers to any information or data that is in its original form and has not been encrypted or coded, making it easily readable and understandable by anyone who has access to it.
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Plaintext
In cryptography, plaintext is information a sender wishes to transmit to a receiver. Cleartext is often used as a synonym. Before the computer era, plaintext most commonly meant message text in the language of the communicating parties. Plaintext has reference to the operation of cryptographic algorithms, usually encryption algorithms, and is the input upon which they operate. Cleartext, by contrast, refers to data that is transmitted or stored unencrypted. Since computers became commonly available, the definition has also encompassed not only electronic representations of the traditional text, for instance, messages and document content, but also the computer representations of sound, images, ATM and credit card transaction information, sensor data, and so forth. Few of these are directly meaningful to humans, being already transformed into computer manipulable forms. Basically, any information which the communicating parties wish to conceal from others can now be treated, and referred to, as plaintext. Thus, in a significant sense, plaintext is the 'normal' representation of data before any action has been taken to conceal, compress, or 'digest' it. It need not represent text, and even if it does, the text may not be "plain".
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plaintext
A form of data or information that is encrypted.
Plaintext is used in computer programming and computer language.
Submitted by MaryC on March 15, 2017
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of plaintext in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of plaintext in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
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