Plaintext

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In cryptography, plaintext (or cleartext) is information a sender wishes to transmit to a receiver.

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').