https://old.andunix.net/ 2026-05-13T14:17:44+00:00 https://old.andunix.net/ https://old.andunix.net/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2013-02-04T22:17:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/cryptography/index Cryptography This guide tries to easily describe the terms used in cryptography. As all pages on this site, it's meant as a mnemonic for myself, but I'm happy if someone else finds it helpful too. cryptography index cryptography guide text/html 2013-02-04T22:17:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/cryptography/plaintext Plaintext The plaintext is unencrypted and unsigned text. It's the payload which then get's signed and/or encrypted. Wikipedia defines plaintext as: " In cryptography, plaintext is information a sender wishes to transmit to a receiver. Cleartext is often used as a synonym. Before the computer era, plaintext most commonly meant message text in the language of the communicating parties. Plaintext has reference to the operation of cryptographic algorithms, usually encryption algorithms, and is … text/html 2014-04-28T08:58:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/cryptography/sidebar andunix Infos info index Tags