Discuss the issue with sending messages in clear text.

What will be an ideal response?


Messages sent via e-mail are transmitted in clear text. This means that there is no encryption or other encoding used to hide important information, such as the username and password of the e-mail account. If you dig through a packet capture of an e-mail transmission, you can easily locate these items in the USER and PASS command captures. E-mail can be secured using two different types of encryption methods (Secure MIME via public-key encryption or Pretty Good Privacy).

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