POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : There's something wrong about... : Re: There's something wrong about... Server Time
29 Jul 2024 20:16:52 EDT (-0400)
  Re: There's something wrong about...  
From: Invisible
Date: 5 May 2011 04:12:01
Message: <4dc25bd1$1@news.povray.org>
On 04/05/2011 17:50, Darren New wrote:
> ... a company that requires you to twice enter a password with upper
> case, lower case, digits, *and* punctuation, and then mails it to you as
> a confirmation in the clear. Sheesh.

You know what's worse?

A company that requires you to send files to them electronically using 
SFTP, requires that it uses public key authentication, and emails you 
the private key that you're supposed to use, unencrypted.

People, the entire *point* of public key cryptography is that you should 
never do this! >_<


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