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ciphertext

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ci·pher·text  (sfr-tkst)
n.
A text in encrypted form, as opposed to the plain text.


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To encrypt information, the programmer converts the plaintext into ciphertext using some type of encryption key.
It would be desirable to have an acceptably secure encryption process that would render a database of identifying information useless to an attacker without a key, but that would produce ciphertext in the same formatas the plaintext.
The ciphertext size is independent of the level of the hierarchy.
 
 
 
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