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Intelligible data that has meaning and can be understood without the application of decryption.

polysemousNISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2

Senses

SANS Glossary of Security Terms

Ordinary readable text before being encrypted into ciphertext or after being decrypted.

National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexicon

Unencrypted information.

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2

Data input to the Cipher or output from the Inverse Cipher.

Classifications

Entity Type

Data92%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Sensitivity

Regulated78%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

unclassified

Variants

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plaintexts
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plaintext's
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