Also known as: ct.
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In cryptography, plain text is information a sender wishes to transmit to a receiver. Clear text is often used as a synonym. Plain text has reference to the operation of cryptographic algorithms, usually encryption algorithms, and is the input upon which they operate. Clear text, by contrast, refers to data that is transmitted or stored unencrypted (that is, 'in the clear').Before the computer era, plain text most commonly meant message text in the language of the communicating parties.
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