How to Use plaintext in a Sentence

plaintext

noun

• Double-click a file from the list, and the app quickly decrypts it and opens the plaintext file.
  — PCMAG, 22 Aug. 2023
• In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was in plaintext, and the Word was in plaintext because plaintext was the Way.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 24 June 2024
• But there were at least five plaintext passwords that remained out of reach.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 Oct. 2019
• Another potential method might make small changes to the plaintext to call it to leak to a server.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 14 May 2018
• Even worse, Nintendo emails the user the new password in plaintext.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 22 Apr. 2020
• The passphrase was stored in plaintext in a configuration file.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2018
• From there, the Xfinity customer’s name and password were available in plaintext and could be changed, locking the customer out of their own Wi-Fi router.
  — Lisa Marie Segarra, Fortune, 23 May 2018
• The big one is that the ideal canonical format for storing data long-term is plaintext.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 24 June 2024
• Without the plaintext, the decryption attack won't work.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 13 Aug. 2020
• Wordle runs in a browser, and all of the game’s code is saved as plaintext on the Wordle website, according to Gizmodo.
  — Terry Collins, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2022
• The first gang planted plaintext JavaScript on the site that caused it to send payment card information to the attackers as customers were completing a sale.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 20 Nov. 2018
• Look, even writing things down by hand and protecting the paper or book at home is more secure (for most people) than storing data in plaintext.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 2 Sep. 2016
• Even in the event that the website breach leaks passwords in plaintext, the password manager ensures that only a single account is compromised.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 16 Sep. 2019
• As if that wasn’t bad enough, the devices transmitted all data in plaintext using commands that were easy to reverse engineer.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2019
• Anyone still sending email in plaintext will likely regret it sooner rather than later.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2023
• And surprisingly, the database will record the information in plaintext.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 4 June 2024
• Strings, the human-readable words included in code, are obfuscated instead of saved as plaintext.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2024
• The company must encrypt passwords and regularly check if any passwords are stored in plaintext.
  — Cat Zakrzewski, Washington Post, 24 July 2019
• The company brought PowerToys back from the dead in 2019 and open-sourced it on GitHub; other tools for the suite include toggles for small-yet-useful features like plaintext pasting or the ability to keep an app always on top.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 2 Sep. 2023
• System credentials needed by the bot should be encrypted and not accessible in plaintext.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 7 July 2021
• The report also detailed security failures such as storing private keys to over $100 million in ethereum assets in plaintext.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 13 Apr. 2023
• Nothing says the encrypted data doesn't contain any sensitive information in plaintext so your Apple ID remains secure.
  — WIRED, 17 Nov. 2023
• An Internet of plaintext and crude images metastasized into the mercurial, glossy entanglement of today’s Web.
  — Frank Guan, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
• By carefully modifying the ciphertext, sending it to a targeted phone, and monitoring the phone's reaction, an attacker can learn the underlying plaintext contained in the ciphertext.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 24 Aug. 2020
• The ciphertext provides no information about the original plaintext, making the encryption theoretically unbreakable.
  — Tracy Levine, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024