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unencrypted en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English encrypted English unencrypted From un- + encrypted.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of something that has been decrypted successfully, or of something that should have been encrypted, but was not.
    • The hackers appeared to have used standard phishing and email attachments, some apparently directed at employees with high-level network access, to obtain unencrypted customer data that could complete a fullz. 2015, Aaron Wheeler, Michael Winburn, Cloud Storage Security: A Practical Guide: