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== See also == | == See also == | ||
| + | * [[Cipher]] | ||
* [[Crytography]] | * [[Crytography]] | ||
| + | * [[Plaintext]] | ||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciphertext Ciphertext] @ Wikipedia | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciphertext Ciphertext] @ Wikipedia | ||
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In cryptography, ciphertext (or cyphertext) is the result of encryption performed on plaintext using an algorithm, called a cipher.
Ciphertext is also known as encrypted or encoded information because it contains a form of the original plaintext that is unreadable by a human or computer without the proper cipher to decrypt it.
Decryption, the inverse of encryption, is the process of turning ciphertext into readable plaintext.
Ciphertext is not to be confused with codetext because the latter is a result of a code, not a cipher.
See also
External links
- Ciphertext @ Wikipedia
