plaintext

noun

plain·text ˈplān-ˌtekst

: the intelligible form of an encrypted text or of its elements compare ciphertext

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Following a report by Krebs on Security, the company acknowledged in March 2019 that a bug in its password management systems had caused hundreds of millions of Facebook, Facebook Lite, and Instagram passwords to be stored without protection in plaintext in an internal platform. —

Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 28 Sep. 2024 Because the conversion works in only one direction—from plaintext to hash—there is no cryptographic means for converting the hashes back into plaintext. —

Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2024 The ultimate aim of hashing is to store passwords only in hashed format and never as plaintext. —

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. —

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