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Plaintext vs Codebook - What's the difference?

plaintext | codebook |

In context|cryptography|lang=en terms the difference between plaintext and codebook

is that plaintext is (cryptography) while codebook is (cryptography) a book, table, database, or other object that stores the mapping between plaintext words or phrases and their equivalents in a code.

As nouns the difference between plaintext and codebook

is that plaintext is (cryptography) while codebook is (cryptography) a book, table, database, or other object that stores the mapping between plaintext words or phrases and their equivalents in a code.

plaintext

English

Noun

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

    • codebook

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (cryptography) A book, table, database, or other object that stores the mapping between plaintext words or phrases and their equivalents in a code.
  • (computer science) A lookup table.