plaintext

nounid 3602·updated May 9, 2026

candidate

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

polysemous

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

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

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

unclassified

3 surface forms

8 senses across 6 frameworks

SANS Glossary of Security Terms1 senseview framework →

§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 →

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 23 sensesview framework →

§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.

CNSSI-4009 (Glossary of Information Assurance Terms)1 senseview framework →

NIST SP 800-211 senseview framework →

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

FIPS PUB 1971 senseview framework →

term as subject — 1 triple

term as object — 1 triple