How to Use plaintext in a Sentence

plaintext

noun

• But there were at least five plaintext passwords that remained out of reach.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 Oct. 2019
• Double-click a file from the list, and the app quickly decrypts it and opens the plaintext file.
  — PCMAG, 22 Aug. 2023
• Another potential method might make small changes to the plaintext to call it to leak to a server.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 14 May 2018
• The passphrase was stored in plaintext in a configuration file.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2018
• Do not store sensitive credentials in plaintext project files.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 July 2026
• Even worse, Nintendo emails the user the new password in plaintext.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 22 Apr. 2020
• The big one is that the ideal canonical format for storing data long-term is plaintext.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 24 June 2024
• Anyone still sending email in plaintext will likely regret it sooner rather than later.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2023
• We're never thrilled about passwords being sent in plaintext through emails since this could be intercepted.
  — Max Eddy, PC Magazine, 25 Aug. 2023
• The ultimate aim of hashing is to store passwords only in hashed format and never as plaintext.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2024
• With each key unique and at least the length of the plaintext, no analysis could discern letter frequency or find common patterns.
  — PC Magazine, 7 Oct. 2025
• And remember a few weeks ago when Microsoft was in hot water for plaintext passwords in Edge?
  — Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 22 May 2026
• Look, even writing things down by hand and protecting the paper or book at home is more secure (for most people) than storing data in plaintext.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 2 Sep. 2016
• The company must encrypt passwords and regularly check if any passwords are stored in plaintext.
  — Cat Zakrzewski, Washington Post, 24 July 2019
• Since many company intranets are sent in plaintext, traffic from them can also be intercepted.
  — ArsTechnica, 26 Feb. 2026
• As if that wasn’t bad enough, the devices transmitted all data in plaintext using commands that were easy to reverse engineer.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2019
• Strings, the human-readable words included in code, are obfuscated instead of saved as plaintext.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2024
• The same is true of the plaintext originals of files encrypted by EncryptPro.
  — Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 1 July 2026
• System credentials needed by the bot should be encrypted and not accessible in plaintext.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 7 July 2021
• And surprisingly, the database will record the information in plaintext.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 4 June 2024
• Even in the event that the website breach leaks passwords in plaintext, the password manager ensures that only a single account is compromised.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 16 Sep. 2019
• Wordle runs in a browser, and all of the game’s code is saved as plaintext on the Wordle website, according to Gizmodo.
  — Terry Collins, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2022
• In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was in plaintext, and the Word was in plaintext because plaintext was the Way.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 24 June 2024
• Yep, a whopping great database packed full of plaintext passwords, email addresses, and usernames all sitting there unprotected, in plaintext, for anyone to use.
  — Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
• From there, the Xfinity customer’s name and password were available in plaintext and could be changed, locking the customer out of their own Wi-Fi router.
  — Lisa Marie Segarra, Fortune, 23 May 2018
• These algorithms take a block of plaintext and the encryption key as input and run them through a subprocess that repeats for a set number of rounds before outputting a finished ciphertext.
  — Ars Technica, 30 Oct. 2024
• Zveare was able to retrieve large amounts of user account information, including employee and customer usernames and passwords stored in plaintext.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 31 Jan. 2026
• Because the conversion works in only one direction—from plaintext to hash—there is no cryptographic means for converting the hashes back into plaintext.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2024
• The report also detailed security failures such as storing private keys to over $100 million in ethereum assets in plaintext.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 13 Apr. 2023
• Despite GitHub’s efforts to prevent such credential leakage, the sprawl of these plaintext secrets is worsening, not improving.
  — Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025