cryptography, ciphertext refers to a message encoded with a particular key. Plaintext refers to the original, unencoded text. In this problem, both the ciphertext and the key are simply strings of upper-case characters.
cryptography, ciphertext refers to a message encoded with a particular key. Plaintext refers to the original, unencoded text. In this problem, both the ciphertext and the key are simply strings of upper-case characters.