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plaintext

nounid 3602·updated May 9, 2026
verified

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

polysemous

Attested in

No recorded attestations. They are written when an MWE tagging stage is completed, stamped with the pack version and the document’s digest.

Classifications

Entity Type

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

Sensitivity

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

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
plaintexts
possessive
plaintext's
pluralpossessive
plaintexts'

Framework definitions

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 →
§1
Unencrypted information.
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 →
§1
Unencrypted information.
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 →
§1
Data input to the Cipher or output from the Inverse Cipher.
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
Intelligible data that has meaning and can be understood without the application of decryption.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

Outgoing relationships

related

Incoming relationships

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