On Nov 6, 2026, at 09:44, Karen Jex <[email protected]> wrote: > I would love to take this on - thank you for flagging it as a potential first > doc-hacking task.
Yay! > Just to confirm my understanding: > 1. We should use "cleartext" and "plaintext" throughout, not "clear-text", > "clear text", "plain text" or "plain-text". > 2. There is at least one case where "plaintext" is used incorrectly in place > of "cleartext”. I thought these were synonyms, in contrast to “ciphertext”. Should we not pick one to replace all of the others? Searching around a bit, it seems like “ciphertext” and “plaintext” are most often contrasting terms, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciphertext. Best, David
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