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Meanings of plaintext in English
Unencrypted information, as opposed to information encrypted for storage or transmission; usually means unencrypted information pending input into cryptographic algorithms.
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Examples for "cleartext"
Examples for "cleartext"
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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.
Usage of plaintext in English
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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.
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The message was plaintext, encoded from Tycho.
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Modern encryption was done by translating plaintext into data streams through mathematical algorithms or formulas governed by keys.
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Three lines of plaintext orbital notation.
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Instead, the company had unintentionally and incidentally captured plaintext passwords across a variety of internal mechanisms and storage systems, like crash logs.
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Facebook now estimates that the incident caused "millions" of Instagram passwords to be stored in plaintext, rather than tens of thousands.
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Egerstad simply sniffed the plaintext traffic that passed through his five exit nodes to obtain the user names and passwords of e-mail accounts.
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They know why people use these shortcuts, but Siegrist and Paradise emphasize that address books and plaintext notes apps put sensitive information at serious risk.
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Soon, only WIRED subscribers will get Plaintext as a newsletter.
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Oh and don't panic if there's no Plaintext next Friday.
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It works very well, and looks a lot like Hog Bay Software's PlainText, with extras.
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The small default font of PlainText was one of the things that kept me from using it.
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Plaintext through the time