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		buraksarica on July 4, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Designing an email-only Slack interface Please just ask for that token and email over SSL. It's that simple. No need to risk people to lower user acquisition ramp.

xyzzy_plugh on July 4, 2018 [–]

You could, or you could just add a few round trips in the email thread and perform a handshake with the token HMAC encoded.

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