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Re: [Cryptography] Why is emailing me my password?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?UTF-8?Q?Lodewijk_andr=C3=A9_de_l)
Tue Oct 1 12:11:00 2013

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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 18:03:02 +0200
To: Nick <cryptography-list@njw.me.uk>
Cc: Greg <greg@kinostudios.com>,
	"cryptography@metzdowd.com List" <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
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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@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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<div dir=3D"ltr">It&#39;s reasonable as it&#39;s not a security sensitive e=
nvironment. Please for the love of god let some environments stay low-sec.<=
/div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">2013/10/=
1 Nick <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:cryptography-list@njw.me.uk"=
 target=3D"_blank">cryptography-list@njw.me.uk</a>&gt;</span><br>

<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p=
x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=3D"im">On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 10=
:28:48AM -0400, Greg wrote:<br>
&gt; So, my password, iPoopInYourHat, is being sent to me in the clear by y=
our servers.<br>
<br>
</div>All mailman lists do this by default. It does tell you on the sign<br=
>
up page that it will do so, and that you shouldn&#39;t use a &#39;valuable&=
#39;<br>
(e.g. used elsewhere) password - see<br>
<a href=3D"http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography" target=3D=
"_blank">http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography</a><br>
<br>
It is an annoying default, but so long as you don&#39;t use a password<br>
attached to anything else you care about, I don&#39;t think it should be<br=
>
too much of a worry.<br>
<div class=3D"HOEnZb"><div class=3D"h5">___________________________________=
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"_blank">http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography</a><br>
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