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In Cryptography, plain text is the term referring to the readable message (sometimes clear text), as opposed to cypher text, the encoded message, whose content is hidden from casual observers.

Plain text can also refer to computer files in ASCII or other human-readable form. See: Binary and text files



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Monty Woolley

... York City, Woolley was a professor and lecturer at Yale University (one of his students was Thornton Wilder) who began acting on Broadway in 1936. He was typecast as ...

 
 
 
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