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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes
Plain text is plain text, generally readable and not binary or formatted text. A simple cipher does not make text un-plain.
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When talking about computers that's true. But not when talking about ciphers. Enciphered text is cipher text, not plain text, pretty much by definition. Which meaning applies is dependent on context. In this context, the non-cipher text meaning was obviously the one that applies.
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