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Basic cryptography terms

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plaintext = The secret text (message, password, ...) you want to encrypt.
ciphertext = A plaintext that has been encrypted.
cipher = A mathematical function that takes at least a key and a plaintext and produces a ciphertext. For example: AES.
hash function = A mathematical function that produces a hash which cannot be reversed back to plaintext.
key = A secret key that allows someone to decrypt a ciphertext back into a plaintext.
secret = see key.

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