plaintext
noun
plain·text
ˈplān-ˌtekst 
: the intelligible form of an encrypted text or of its elements compare ciphertext
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Microsoft also seems to have fixed the single largest problem with Recall: previously, all screenshots and the entire text database were stored in plaintext with zero encryption.
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ArsTechnica, 21 Apr. 2025
Centralized Secrets Storage • Use a dedicated secrets management vault such as HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager or Azure Key Vault.
• Avoid storing credentials in plaintext files, environment variables or source code repositories.
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—Srikanth Mandru, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
And many of those fail to provide a means for securely deleting the plaintext originals of those files.
—PCMAG, 28 Jan. 2025
These algorithms take a block of plaintext and the encryption key as input and run them through a subprocess that repeats for a set number of rounds before outputting a finished ciphertext.
—Ars Technica, 30 Oct. 2024
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ArsTechnica, 21 Apr. 2025
Centralized Secrets Storage • Use a dedicated secrets management vault such as HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager or Azure Key Vault.
• Avoid storing credentials in plaintext files, environment variables or source code repositories.
2.
—Srikanth Mandru, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
And many of those fail to provide a means for securely deleting the plaintext originals of those files.
—PCMAG, 28 Jan. 2025
These algorithms take a block of plaintext and the encryption key as input and run them through a subprocess that repeats for a set number of rounds before outputting a finished ciphertext.
—Ars Technica, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Plaintext.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plaintext. Accessed 10 May. 2025.
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