Le ven. 6 nov. 2026 à 15:49, David E. Wheeler <[email protected]> a écrit : > > > 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.
I think you're right, and that makes the task much simpler (that was my initial understanding, before I found various articles suggesting that cleartext and plaintext were not the same). I see that the cleartext Wikipedia entry redirects to plaintext: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaintext, which implies that plaintext may be the preferred term.
