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Meanings of cleartext in English

Russian
открытый текст
Portuguese
purotexto
Spanish
texto pelado
Catalan
text clar

Unencrypted information, as opposed to information encrypted for storage or transmission; usually means unencrypted information pending input into cryptographic algorithms.

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      открытый текст
      Synonyms
      Examples for "plaintext"
      Examples for "plaintext"
      1
      He pulled up his hand terminal and sent the plaintext coordinates to Fred.
      Leviathan Wakes
      2
      I enclose the plaintext, shorn of pleasantries, formalities, and other impedimenta.
      Quicksilver
      3
      His handy bullet-pointed list covers everything from plaintext to mad DRM ebook formats.
      Wired
      4
      The plaintext was much the same as in the original.
      The confusion
      5
      At least you can slurp plaintext off of SD cards.
      Wired
      Usage of cleartext in English
      1
      That file, it turned out, included the administrative login and password in cleartext.
      Wired
      2
      Accepts authentication performed via cleartext passwords.
      Essential system administration, 3rd edition
      3
      All cleartext traffic is not just information being sent from sender to receiver, but is a possible attack vector.
      Wired
      4
      Data has to be processed, so you load it in memory in cleartext and don't have any additional protection.
      Wired
      5
      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.
      Wired
      Frequent collocations
      Translations for cleartext
      Portuguese
      purotexto
      Catalan
      text clar
      Cleartext through the time