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Re: Encrypting Confidential Mail

  • Subject: Re: Encrypting Confidential Mail
  • From: houghi <houghi@houghi.org.invalid>
  • Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 17:34:52 -0000
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Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> When I needed to send my Web host an important password, I requsted their
> PGP key. I was then told that PGP was not set up on their machine... so I
> sent it unencrpted... unfortunately this was not the only time that I sent
> the password for a site over non-secure SMTP.

I bet theu use standard FTP, so the `password sending in plaintext` is not
as much a problem. Each time they update their site, they send their
password as plaintext.

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