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Downside to sending the password in the email!
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Of course. If you send a password (or anything else) via email without encryption, it is trivial for an unauthorized party to intercept the email and extract the password. You could use PGP to fix that problem, but then your users must use PGP and register their keys with your website.
Sincerely,
Tom Anderson
CEO, Order amid Chaos, Inc.
Sincerely,
Tom Anderson
CEO, Order amid Chaos, Inc.
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