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Definition
Un-encrypted text or message in its original-human readable-form. Clear text is the input of an encryption process, and the output of a decryption process. Also called plain text, it is the opposite of cypher Text.
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clear text is in the Data Management, Communications, & Networks, E-Commerce and Internet & World Wide Web subjects.
clear text appears in the definitions of the following terms: cyphertext, cryptography and plain text
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