plain text

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plaintext

1.

Text or any data that is to be encrypted (as opposed to ciphertext).

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Using the sophisticated code was useless since the spy merely stole the plain text from the waste basket.
2.

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.

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3.

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".

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adj.