[Cryptography] Why is emailing me my password?

[Lodewijk andré de la porte]

It's reasonable as it's not a security sensitive environment. Please for
the love of god let some environments stay low-sec.


2013/10/1 Nick <cryptography-list at njw.me.uk>

> On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 10:28:48AM -0400, Greg wrote:
> > So, my password, iPoopInYourHat, is being sent to me in the clear by
> your servers.
>
> All mailman lists do this by default. It does tell you on the sign
> up page that it will do so, and that you shouldn't use a 'valuable'
> (e.g. used elsewhere) password - see
> http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
>
> It is an annoying default, but so long as you don't use a password
> attached to anything else you care about, I don't think it should be
> too much of a worry.
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