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plaintext

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(1) Text that contains no formatting. See text e-mail.

(2) Text that has not been encrypted. Also called "cleartext," plaintext is readable by any text editor such as Notepad and word processors that import ASCII text (almost all do). Contrast with "ciphertext," which is text that has been encrypted. See cryptography.

Plaintext Becomes Ciphertext
In this secret key example, the XOR operator is used to turn plaintext into ciphertext and then back to plaintext again. In practice, XOR is not used quite as simply as this. It is used in combination with different techniques and other ciphers to provide the complete encryption algorithm.

(cryptography)plaintext - A message before encryption or after decryption, i.e. in its usual form which anyone can read, as opposed to its encrypted form ("ciphertext").
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The data block to be encrypted is called the plaintext; the encrypted plaintext is called the ciphertext.
Report on the Development of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) by Roback, Edward / Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
Under these conditions - as one learns in greater detail in her collections of essays, Plaintext (University of Arizona, 1986) and Carnal Acts (Harper-Collins, 1990), Nancy Mairs almost did not survive.
Ordinary Time: Cycles in Marriage, Faith, and Renewal by Mason, Alane Salierno / Commonweal
Capabilities that automate the integration process -- stored procedures and functions to encrypt and decrypt data on demand from inside the database, migrate plaintext columns to encrypted columns, and automate subsequent encrypt and decrypt operations.
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