plain text password

[Florian Weimer]

* David Stibbe:

> How come that a mailing list for developers sends me a confirmation
> email containing the password for my account, chosen by myself, in
> plain text?

Huh?  If you actually sniffed on the wire, you'd have noticed that it
was encrypted.

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