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simple & easy way to exchange sensitive information?

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J-Mac:
Two suggestions:

[*]  Hide it in plain sight. Put a list of passwords in the email and let your friend know in another email or a phone call which is the real one. Not entirely effective "security by obscurity" but it can work.



[*] Set up a cipher and encode the message before sending it. Then send your code word to your friend another way. Use a standard Vigenere Cipher.[/list]


Jim

app103:
If you want them to be able to use your credit card, add them as an authorized user and the credit card company will send you a card just for them, with their name on it. But you will be responsible for any and all activity on the card, and the bill.

nogojoe:
For a once only use, I thought it would be possible to have an openable/unopenable switch. Once it has been opened it records the fact and can't ever be opened again.

For a cycle, there would be say 10 pre-programmed passwords. Once each one had been used, the program would need the next to open. At the end of the 10 it could either terminate (like once only) or switch back to the first.
-Dormouse (January 08, 2009, 01:48 PM)
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Why not set up a free Fastmail email address setup

with fastmail you can setup 100 onetime use login passwords along with your master password.

just email your data which you want the other person to have into that fastmail and give him one of the onetime use to access that account.

all the other person has to do is login ,access the data and logout you can stop the other person from from doing anything from within the fastmail account ( being an additional account set up just for this you wouldn't have much to access .

Next time you need to send more info just give them another of the 100 passwords.

Onced logged out the password is finished
nogojoe

justice:
If you want them to be able to use your credit card, add them as an authorized user and the credit card company will send you a card just for them, with their name on it. But you will be responsible for any and all activity on the card, and the bill.
-app103 (January 09, 2009, 01:38 AM)
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no this not about using it, but good suggestion thanks.

Dormouse:
Why not set up a free Fastmail email address setup-nogojoe (January 09, 2009, 02:09 AM)
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For me, I simply wouldn't trust the security of unencrypted email.

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