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plaintext
(I) Data that is input to and transformed by an encryption
process, or that is output by a decryption process.
(C) Usually, the plaintext input to an encryption operation is
cleartext. But in some cases, the input is ciphertext that was
output from another encryption operation. (See: superencryption.)
