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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
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(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: