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Plaintext

Plaintext is the original directly readable form of a message before conversion to or after deciphering from ciphertext.

See also

Cipher, Ciphertext

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References

Menezes, A. J.; van Oorschot, P.; and Vanstone, S. A. Handbook of Applied Cryptography. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1996.Schneier, B Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, 2nd ed. New York: Wiley, 1996.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Plaintext." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Plaintext.html