Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A text in encrypted form, as opposed to the plaintext.
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- noun   Encoded text, text that is unreadable.
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Examples
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								Decryption of the ciphertext is the inverse of the encryption steps, using the same symmetric key used for encryption. TechNewsWorld Barry K. Shelton 2010 
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								"This is called ciphertext and requires a ciphertext decoder to uncode it and return it back to a readable format." Latest Articles 2010 
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								The result of the process is encrypted information (in cryptography, referred to as ciphertext). LXer Linux News Caitlyn Martin, Chris Smart and Ladislav Bodnar 2009 
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								3 Useless Encryptions A ciphertext is a term with the encrypt operator at its root. Recently Uploaded Slideshows techdude 2010 
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								The result of the State after the final AES round is "ciphertext," which bears no resemblance to the plaintext. TechNewsWorld Barry K. Shelton 2010 
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								Unlike traditional encryption methods where the encrypted data or "ciphertext" is stored in databases and applications throughout the enterprise, tokenization substitutes a token-or surrogate value-in place of the original data. 
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								All entries (the 'ciphertext' property in a "Weave Basic Object") in that engine are encrypted with the symmetric key that was generated for it. Across the Stars 2009 
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								Well, by “trivial” I mean “trivial when someone else has already written a really solid algorithm for brute-forcing a ciphertext with a probability-weighted wordlist, and you can just use their code.” 
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								The “someone” in this case is UC Irvine computer science prof David Eppstein, whose program and dictionary made short work of the string I gave it despite several errors in that ciphertext. 
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								You'd look up Einstein's public key and apply it to the scrambled ciphertext. 
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