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Plaintext vs Ciphertext - What's the difference?

plaintext | ciphertext |

As nouns the difference between plaintext and ciphertext

is that plaintext is an alternative spelling of lang=en while ciphertext is encoded text, text that is unreadable.

plaintext

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (cryptography)
  • (computing)

    • ciphertext

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Encoded text, text that is unreadable.
    • All ciphertexts look alike; that's how you know it's in code.

    Antonyms

    * plain text