codetext

An encoded form of a message, as opposed to plaintext.

Noun

  1. An encoded form of a message, as opposed to plaintext.
    • To work well, a code must have thousands of plaintext words or phrases with a codetext equivalent for each. Usually, for the sake of manageability, a codetext word is limited to three to five letters or numbers. All the...
    • The repetitions of the codetext matched those of the proposed plaintext perfectly.[…]The two spent the morning inserting his equivalents into the codetexts, but none stood close enough together in the texts to obtain...
    • DNA encryption of images, part 1: Alice uses her library of primers to make codetextᶜ-plaintextᶜ pairs.[…]The result of adding the whole library to the long DNA, letting the copying happen, and then dissociating the...

    Antonyms: plaintext

Origin

From code + text.

Forms

codetexts

Related

ciphertext