Plaintext

In cryptography, plaintext usually means unencrypted information pending input into cryptographic algorithms, usually encryption algorithms. This usually refers to data that is transmitted or stored unencrypted.

This article is about cryptography. For the computing term meaning the storage of textual material that is (largely) unformatted, see plain text.
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