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Re: [Cryptography] Why is emailing me my password?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russ Nelson)
Wed Oct 2 10:23:33 2013
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Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 01:17:37 -0400
From: Russ Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
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Greg writes:
> This falls somewhere in the land of beyond-the-absurd.
> So, my password, iPoopInYourHat, is being sent to me in the clear by your servers.
Repeat after me: "crypto without a threat model is like cookies without
milk."
If you are proposing that something needs stronger encryption than
ROT-26, please explain the threat model that justifies your choice of
encryption and key distribution algorithms.
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