Definition of "ciphertext" []

• A text in encrypted form, as opposed to the plain text. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• ""This is called ciphertext and requires a ciphertext decoder to uncode it and return it back to a readable format.""
• "Decryption of the ciphertext is the inverse of the encryption steps, using the same symmetric key used for encryption."
• "The result of the process is encrypted information (in cryptography, referred to as ciphertext)."