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Text definition - hacker
In cryptography, text is used to mean any information to be encrypted, plaintext refers to the message before it is encrypted, and ciphertext refers to the message after it is encrypted.

See Also: Ciphertext; Cryptography or “Crypto”; Plaintext.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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