Re: Passwords in the Clear

Alastair.Green@barclayscapital.com scripsit:

> Certificates don't give you high protection from fraudulent endpoints, I
> agree, but they give some, and they do give you protection from
> observation of data in motion. 

Protecting data in transmission is a very different point from protecting
passwords.  If you need the former, you might as well have the latter.
I understand the issue here to be one in which secure data is not a
requirement but secure access supposedly is.

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