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It's my understanding that people often use "plaintext" in contrast to "ciphertext", so it's not unreasonable for someone to read "plaintext" and think "unencry
by Osmium 13y ago
It's my understanding that people often use "plaintext" in contrast to "ciphertext", so it's not unreasonable for someone to read "plaintext" and think "unencrypted".
- npsimons 13y agoExcept in a discussion such as this one, where we're explicitly talking about Google locking out competitors by replacing plain (ASCII) text protocols with proprietary binary ones.
- laumars 13y agoTo be fair, this discussion is a huge tangent about e-mail protocols. So both definitions of plain text could be contextually valid.
- daeken 13y agoI've been trying to force myself to use "cleartext" instead of "plaintext" to alleviate this ambiguity. It's remarkably hard to do after so long, though.