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Originally Posted by Nookster
What's worse, is that if you can see your password unencrypted in the email messages sent to you, it means they are also unencrypted in the databases on the systems....extremely bad practice, not to mention extremely insecure.
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Nats uses a 2 way cipher for its webmaster passwords. Not sure on the security of that, i'm sure anyone w/ a copy could make a hash table reasonably quickly, but at least they're not plaintext.