plain text
See also: plaintext
English
Alternative forms
- plaintext usually a single compound word in cryptography and computing.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛkst
Noun
plain text (uncountable)
- (cryptography) Text that is not encrypted, and hence readable.
- Using the sophisticated code was useless since the spy merely stole the plain text from the waste basket.
- (computing) Data which consists only of human-readable text, as opposed to machine-readable binary data or formatting markup.
Synonyms
- (computing) flat text, cleartext
Antonyms
- (cryptography) ciphertext
Translations
unencrypted text — see cleartext
data that consists only of human-readable text
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Adjective
plain text (not comparable)
- (computing) Consisting only of plain text.
Synonyms
- (computing) ASCII, cleartext, decoded, unencrypted
Antonyms
- (computing) binary, encoded, encrypted