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plaintext (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 [′plān‚tekst] (communications) The form of a message in which it can be generally understood, before it has been transformed by a code or cipher into a form in which it can be read only by those privy to the secrets of the cipher. (computer science) Data that are to be encrypted.
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