plaintext
noun
plain·text
ˈplān-ˌtekst 
: the intelligible form of an encrypted text or of its elements compare ciphertext
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The ultimate aim of hashing is to store passwords only in hashed format and never as plaintext.
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Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2024
Further Reading Facebook apps logged users’ passwords in plaintext, because why not
Meta disclosed the lapse in early 2019.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2024
This is a cryptographic technique developed around 1917 by Gilbert Vernam and Joseph Mauborgne which uses a one-use key—the one-time pad—to encrypt and decrypt plaintext.
—John Prisco, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
Courtesy of Terrence O'Brien Like many of the other apps, Calmly is Markdown based, so your resulting files are just plaintext and easily transferred between apps.
—Terrence O’Brien, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2024
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Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2024
Further Reading Facebook apps logged users’ passwords in plaintext, because why not
Meta disclosed the lapse in early 2019.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2024
This is a cryptographic technique developed around 1917 by Gilbert Vernam and Joseph Mauborgne which uses a one-use key—the one-time pad—to encrypt and decrypt plaintext.
—John Prisco, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
Courtesy of Terrence O'Brien Like many of the other apps, Calmly is Markdown based, so your resulting files are just plaintext and easily transferred between apps.
—Terrence O’Brien, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2024
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“Plaintext.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plaintext. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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