Also 10 years ago Werner Koch wrote:

> I got a lot of mail with the tenor "It is funny that a mailing list
> dedicated to email security sends out passwords in the clear".
> ...


See http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2001-February/016942.html

Best regards, Alex

On 01.02.2011, at 13:29, Alexander Willner wrote:

> In this context see e.g. [1]:
> 
> On Thu, 1 Feb 2001 12:01:17 -0500 (EST) Brian wrote:
>> The topic of plaintext passwords sent out each month as part of the
>> reminder process came up on the GnuPG mailing list today.
>> ...
>> I'd like to suggest that encryption of the password reminders be
>> implemented.
> 
> 
> Afaik there was no answer to this request. Added Brian on CC.
> 
> Best regards, Alex
> 
> [1] 
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2001-February/008200.html
> 
> 
>> Hello to the list,
>> 
>> wouldn't it be a bit more secure (and logic) to send out these mailing list 
>> memberships reminders in encrypted version? It's a bit strange to see my 
>> password running through the internet without any encryption. If that's not 
>> possible one should switch off this sending of sensitive data, imho.
>> 
>> Greets,
>> B. Alabay
> 
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