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I received an email from them - the password was included in the email, in plaintext. So I don't know exactly what they mean, but it's at best symmetric encryp
by krallin 13y ago
I received an email from them - the password was included in the email, in plaintext.
So I don't know exactly what they mean, but it's at best symmetric encryption.
- Zikes 13y agoI've got an account with them under two different email addresses, and have gone through the password change process with both. In neither case did I receive an email with my password in it.
- Arnor 13y agoSymmetric Encryption means both sides can access the data. It's different from using a hash (like MD5 or the stronger SHA series) in that it can be reversed given the key. Ouch... that's oversimplified... Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric-key_algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric-key_algorithm http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~mihir/cse207/w-se.pdf http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~mihir/cse207/w-se.pdf