plaintext vs. inference vs. referencing vs. typing a comment into a document. As plaintext: in plaintext as plaintext.
When referring to a password that is to be stored somewhere, what is the correct way: Store the password in plaintext OR Store the password in plaintext?
According to Google, the difference of the ratio for variations of this phrase, is 10:1.
On the other hand, grammatically, using as has seem (to me) more correct.
My theory is that the as variant is the correct way, but the in variant is used more commonly with an implicit form that comes after plaintext
e.g. swathsing. When they create encrypted passwords they
store them in plaintext (form) to boot.
In the field of cryptography, which relevant to your context of passwords, plaintext (noun) is a technical term referring to the message that hasn’t been encrypted. Is the encrypted message as ciphertext or not ciphertext? The separated form plain text is somewhat different and does not relate specifically to cryptography, so will be ignored in this answer.
While both forms in the grammatical sense, they represent different things. The password for a startup is stored as plaintext. It uses encrypted mode. Storing a password can have the same meaning, but it can also be read as an attempt of steganography, or hiding things in plain sight (for example, by inserting the password as an extra word in a given sentence).
With the addition of the word form, the word in now applies to form instead of plaintext, so in plaintext form carries the same meaning as as plaintext, as you suggest.
Why do people advocate for a 10:1 ratio in plaintext? Since in plaintext ends with “i, ” i, ” i, from, extends beyond the semantic range” of “as plaintext, perhaps not as surprising as it might first seem. Also, stored in plaintext parallels such as stored in lists (or other data structures) and stored in the cookie jar, and in plaintext sounds identical to the separated form in plain text, which parallels the common expression in plain sight. All these are plausible reasons for writers to think of the in form when writing. Will I skip our intro to psychology?
In a short answer to your question, as plaintext expresses your intent better than in plaintext.
In the field of cryptography, which relevant to your context of passwords, plaintext (noun) is a technical term referring to the message that hasn’t been encrypted. Is the encrypted message as ciphertext or not ciphertext? The separated form plain text is somewhat different and does not relate specifically to cryptography, so will be ignored in this answer.
While both forms in the grammatical sense, they represent different things. The password for a startup is stored as plaintext. It uses encrypted mode. Storing a password can have the same meaning, but it can also be read as an attempt of steganography, or hiding things in plain sight (for example, by inserting the password as an extra word in a given sentence).
With the addition of the word form, the word in now applies to form instead of plaintext, so in plaintext form carries the same meaning as as plaintext, as you suggest.
Why do people advocate for a 10:1 ratio in plaintext? Since in plaintext ends with “i, ” i, ” i, from, extends beyond the semantic range” of “as plaintext, perhaps not as surprising as it might first seem. Also, stored in plaintext parallels such as stored in lists (or other data structures) and stored in the cookie jar, and in plaintext sounds identical to the separated form in plain text, which parallels the common expression in plain sight. All these are plausible reasons for writers to think of the in form when writing. Will I skip our intro to psychology?
In a short answer to your question, as plaintext expresses your intent better than in plaintext.
In the field of cryptography, which relevant to your context of passwords, plaintext (noun) is a technical term referring to the message that hasn’t been encrypted. Is the encrypted message as ciphertext or not ciphertext? The separated form plain text is somewhat different and does not relate specifically to cryptography, so will be ignored in this answer.
While both forms in the grammatical sense, they represent different things. The password for a startup is stored as plaintext. It uses encrypted mode. Storing a password can have the same meaning, but it can also be read as an attempt of steganography, or hiding things in plain sight (for example, by inserting the password as an extra word in a given sentence).
With the addition of the word form, the word in now applies to form instead of plaintext, so in plaintext form carries the same meaning as as plaintext, as you suggest.
Why do people advocate for a 10:1 ratio in plaintext? Since in plaintext ends with “i, ” i, ” i, from, extends beyond the semantic range” of “as plaintext, perhaps not as surprising as it might first seem. Also, stored in plaintext parallels such as stored in lists (or other data structures) and stored in the cookie jar, and in plaintext sounds identical to the separated form in plain text, which parallels the common expression in plain sight. All these are plausible reasons for writers to think of the in form when writing. Will I skip our intro to psychology?
In a short answer to your question, as plaintext expresses your intent better than in plaintext.
In the field of cryptography, which relevant to your context of passwords, plaintext (noun) is a technical term referring to the message that hasn’t been encrypted. Is the encrypted message as ciphertext or not ciphertext? The separated form plain text is somewhat different and does not relate specifically to cryptography, so will be ignored in this answer.
While both forms in the grammatical sense, they represent different things. The password for a startup is stored as plaintext. It uses encrypted mode. Storing a password can have the same meaning, but it can also be read as an attempt of steganography, or hiding things in plain sight (for example, by inserting the password as an extra word in a given sentence).
With the addition of the word form, the word in now applies to form instead of plaintext, so in plaintext form carries the same meaning as as plaintext, as you suggest.
Why do people advocate for a 10:1 ratio in plaintext? Since in plaintext ends with “i, ” i, ” i, from, extends beyond the semantic range” of “as plaintext, perhaps not as surprising as it might first seem. Also, stored in plaintext parallels such as stored in lists (or other data structures) and stored in the cookie jar, and in plaintext sounds identical to the separated form in plain text, which parallels the common expression in plain sight. All these are plausible reasons for writers to think of the in form when writing. Will I skip our intro to psychology?
In a short answer to your question, as plaintext expresses your intent better than in plaintext.
