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Plaintext
Text or any data that is to be encrypted (as opposed to ciphertext).
📖 Definitions of "Plaintext"
noun
- 1
Text or any data that is to be encrypted (as opposed to ciphertext).
"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.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Plaintext"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| decryptedverb | (transitive) To convert (an encrypted or coded message) back into plain text. |
| plain textnoun | (file format) Human readable text which consists only of a string of characters, represented using a character encoding such as ASCII or Unicode. In the file format sense, plain text may represent structured data in a human readable format such as XML. |
| human-readable | (computing) That can be read by humans (as well as computers), such as a file format based on plain text. |
| binarynoun | A state in which only two values are possible, in which something must have one value or the other. |
| null-terminated | (programming, of data) Stored in memory followed by a null character, so that its length can be detected without having to be explicitly stored. |
| character-based | (computing) capable of displaying only text characters or having a text-based user interface |
| vanillanoun | (uncountable) The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant. |
| dirty | Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime. |
| pseudographical | (computing) Having the appearance of graphics, though actually text-based. |
| open | (usually not comparable) Physically unobstructed, uncovered, etc. |
| self-documenting | (computing, programming, of source code) Written and structured in such a way that it can be understood without consulting separate documentation. |
| bare-bones | (idiomatic) Minimalist; lacking that which is not essential. |
| high-level | (computing, of a programming language) Consisting of relatively natural language-like commands and mathematical notations which, after compilation or interpretation, become a set of machine language instructions. |
| undercommented | (computing, programming) Having inadequate documentation in the form of comments in source code. |
| static | Unchanging; that cannot or does not change. |
| generic | (pharmacology) Of a product or drug, not having a brand name; nonproprietary in design or contents; fungible with the rest of its class. |
| monolithic | (figurative) Having a massive, unchanging structure that does not permit individual variation. |
| formattedverb | That has been given a definite format |
| self-executing | (computing) Consisting of a complete executable package that takes some action with the included data, rather than a pure data file requiring some additional tool to read it. |
| bitpacked | (computing) Synonym of bit-compressed. |
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