PLAINTEXT

Plain text

In computing, plain text is the contents of an ordinary sequential file readable as textual material without much processing, usually opposed to formatted text and to "binary files" in which some portions must be interpreted as binary objects .

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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.

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plain text

Noun

  1. Not encrypted text; text that is readable.
    Using the sophisticated code was useless since the spy merely stole the plain text from the waste basket.
  2. Data which consists only of human-readable text, as opposed to machine-readable binary data or formatting markup.

Adjective

  1. Consisting only of plain text.


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plaintext

Noun



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