the.com/plaintext
the message before it puts on armor.
means unencrypted, human-readable data — text you can read without a key, a password, or a lawyer.
from from cryptography, where messages were split into plaintext (readable) and ciphertext (scrambled) as early as wwii codebreaking, later adopted by computing to mean any unformatted, unencrypted text file.
oppositeciphertext, its encrypted twin
file format.txt, the internet's oldest survivor
security sinstoring passwords in it is a firing offense
email defaultstill how most spam gets read