plain text

Alternative forms

 * usually a single compound word in cryptography.

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.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  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".
 * 1)  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".

Synonyms

 * cleartext, text file,  flat text

Antonyms

 * (cryptography) ciphertext, (computing) rich text

Translations

 * Finnish: raakateksti