plaintext

American  

[pleyn-tekst] / ˈpleɪnˌtɛkst /

noun

1. the intelligible original message of a cryptogram, as opposed to the coded or enciphered version.

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Etymology

Origin of plaintext

First recorded in 1915–20; plain ¹ + text

Example Sentences

It is widely accepted that user passwords should not be stored in 'plaintext' considering the risks of abuse that arise from persons accessing such data.

From BBC

As the Guardian reported, "Yahoo did not encrypt all the security questions it stored, and so some are readable in plaintext. While it may be irritating to have to change a stolen password, it is somewhat worse to have to change a stolen mother's maiden name."

From Salon

But for anyone who just wants the ability to use Markdown as a shortcut to formatting, and doesn’t care about fussing around with plaintext, Google’s way could be relatively approachable — instead of selecting text and pressing Command / Control + L to insert a link, you can just type a few brackets and parentheses.

From The Verge

Moxie Marlinspike, who created the encryption used by rival platforms Signal and WhatsApp, tweeted many users thought Telegram was an encrypted app - but it was "by default a cloud database with a plaintext copy of every message everyone has ever sent/received".

From BBC

That seems like the right move to me, given the existence of Notepads’ perhaps lesser-known sibling WordPad, which is closer to Microsoft Word than a plaintext editor.

From The Verge