Because sharing a password should never happen in plain-text.
Imagine Bob is in France and Paul is in the USA. Normally you'd have to go through a tedious load of tools to securely share a password. You definitely don't want to send it via skype, Email or any other text-message. Are you going to call? Maybe for a password that is called: "AGdfds$%$%sdfdfs$$gsddf___gffgfg323"? There is a better way...
I had this problem so many times that I finally wrote a solution that works on Mac, Windows, in the Browser, no Server, everywhere. You could even go ahead and make a Phonegap solution out of it.
It is a one-time public key usage. I think the correct expression for it is perfect forward encryption, but I might be wrong.
Open up this link and add it to your bookmarks. Every time you want to share a password (and I know it will happen!) you can just open that tool with your the colleagues and follow the instructions.
http://tomw1808.github.io/rsa-message-sharing/#/
git clone git@github.com:tomw1808/rsa-message-sharing.git
npm install
bower install
happy coding.
Happy to have them. If it is something encryption related, please let me know as well. I am no crypto-expert, I just use the algorithms. If there is a specific concern about the usage, I am also happy to remove the repository or put a CLEAR warning out.
MIT.