+**Plaintext** refers to [Text](/wiki/text) or data that has not been encrypted, directly readable by humans or computers. It is information in its raw form, often organized as a sequence of [Character](/wiki/character)s according to a specific encoding.
+## See also
+- [Ciphertext](/wiki/ciphertext)
+- [Encoding](/wiki/encoding)
+- [ASCII](/wiki/ascii)
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