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Dylan16807
on April 6, 2011
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Plain Text Offenders - Did you just email me back ...
Still, you can have your passwords very securely stored in bcrypt AND mail the plain text out when the account is created. If your email isn't secure that should really be dealt with, and separately.
JoachimSchipper
on April 6, 2011
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No. E-mail is an unencrypted, unauthenticated protocol; how could sending out plain text passwords over a plain text protocol ever be a good idea?
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