English

Alternative forms

• plaintext usually a single compound word in cryptography and computing.

Noun

plain text ‎(uncountable)

1. (cryptography) Not encrypted text; text that is readable.

   Using the sophisticated code was useless since the spy merely stole the plain text from the waste basket.

2. (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

Adjective

plain text ‎(not comparable)

1. (computing) Consisting only of plain text.

Synonyms

• (computing) ASCII, cleartext, decoded, unencrypted

Antonyms

• (computing) binary, encoded, encrypted