Decrypted vs Unencrypted - What's the difference?

As a verb decrypted

is past tense of decrypt.

of something that has been decrypted successfully, or of something that should have been encrypted, but was not.

(head)

(decrypt)

(en verb)

To convert an encrypted or coded text or message into plain text.

* encrypt

(en noun)

A decoded communication.

* 1979 , Francis Harry Hinsley, British Intelligence in the Second World War (page 182)

The decrypts were being obtained from the traffic of 78 German stations by the end of 1941, and of 147 stations by the end of 1942.

(-)

(computing) Of something that has been decrypted successfully, or of something that should have been encrypted, but was not.