Unencrypted information, as opposed to information encrypted for storage or transmission; usually means unencrypted information pending input into cryptographic algorithms.
He pulled up his hand terminal and sent the plaintext coordinates to Fred.
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I enclose the plaintext, shorn of pleasantries, formalities, and other impedimenta.
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His handy bullet-pointed list covers everything from plaintext to mad DRM ebook formats.
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The plaintext was much the same as in the original.
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At least you can slurp plaintext off of SD cards.
Ús de cleartext en anglès
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That file, it turned out, included the administrative login and password in cleartext.
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Accepts authentication performed via cleartext passwords.
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All cleartext traffic is not just information being sent from sender to receiver, but is a possible attack vector.
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Data has to be processed, so you load it in memory in cleartext and don't have any additional protection.
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MySpace wouldn't comment on the case or on Holly's assertion that the site stores its customer account passwords in cleartext, rather than encrypted format.