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Is sending password to user email secure? [closed]

How secure is sending passwords through email to a user, since email isn't secured by HTTPS. What is the best way to secure it? Should I use encryption?
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1answer
90 views

How to go about designing an intermediate routing filter program to accept input and forward accordingly?

My predicament: I designed an app, written in Python, to read my mail and check for messages that contain a certain digital signature. It opens these and looks for keywords. If the message contains ...
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3answers
277 views

What is the best policy for allowing clients to change email?

We are developing a web application with a fairly standard registration process which requires a client/user to verify their email address before they are allowed to use the site. The site also ...
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1answer
174 views

How do PGP and PEM differ?

Email messages are sent in plain text which means that the messages I send to Derpina are visible to anyone who somehow gets access to them while they are in transit. To overcome this, various ...