Ciphertext
nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026
Data output from the Cipher or input to the Inverse Cipher.
polysemousNISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2
Senses
SANS Glossary of Security Terms
Ciphertext is the encrypted form of the message being sent.
National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexicon
Data or information in its encrypted form.
ISACA Cybersecurity Glossary
Information generated by an encryption algorithm to protect the plaintext and that is unintelligible to the unauthorized reader.
NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2sense 2 pending review
Data in its enciphered form.
Classifications
Entity Type
Data0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity
Restricted85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class
—60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants
- plural
- Ciphertexts
- possessive
- Ciphertext's
- pluralpossessive
- Ciphertexts'