Clear-text

Clear-text definition - hacker
Unencrypted text, also known as plaintext. Security administrators are often concerned about the security of networks, because passwords are transmitted in clear-text across the network.

See Also: Network; Password; Plaintext; Security.

Northrup, T. Common Internet File System. [Online, July 1998.] Windows Library Website. http://www.windowsitlibrary.com/Content/386/14/2.html.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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