plaintext
nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026
Intelligible data that has meaning and can be understood without the application of decryption.
Framework senses
- §1
- Ordinary readable text before being encrypted into ciphertext or after being decrypted.
National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexicon1 senseview framework →
- §1
- Unencrypted information.
- §1
- Data input to the Cipher or output from the Inverse Cipher.
- §2 · sense_2_pending_review
- Intelligible data that has meaning and can be understood without the application of decryption.
- §3 · sense_3_pending_review
- Unencrypted information.
- §1
- Unencrypted information.
- §1
- Intelligible data that has meaning and can be understood without the application of decryption.
- §1
- Data input to the Cipher or output from the Inverse Cipher.