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Latest revision as of 04:55, 22 April 2016

In cryptography, plaintext is information a sender wishes to transmit to a receiver.

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Plaintext has reference to the operation of cryptographic algorithms, usually encryption algorithms, and is the input upon which they operate.

Cleartext, by contrast, refers to data that is transmitted or stored unencrypted (that is, 'in the clear').

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