plain text

Definitions

1. 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. 2

   Human readable text which consists only of a string of characters, represented using a…

   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.

3. 3

   Data which consists only of human-readable unformatted text, as opposed to…

   Data which consists only of human-readable unformatted text, as opposed to machine-readable binary data or formatted/structured text. In this sense, the character data in between XML tags may be called "plain text".

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   1. 4

      Alternative spelling of plaintext.

The neighborhood

• synonymcleartext
• synonymflat text
• antonymciphertext
• antonymrich text