plain text

plain text
1. noun
a) Unencrypted text, text that is readable.

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

b) Data which consists only of human-readable text, as opposed to machine-readable binary data or formatting markup.
Syn: flat text, cleartext
Consisting only of plain text.
Syn: ASCII, cleartext, decoded, unencrypted
Ant: binary, encoded, encrypted

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