plaintext
nounverified·updated May 9, 2026
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
- plural
- plaintexts
- possessive
- plaintext's
- pluralpossessive
- plaintexts'