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11/08/06 21:54
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#127616 - I think you are entirely missing the point
Responding to: ???'s previous message
I think you are being very naive about how the cryptography community works. The whole idea of electronic voting is to have a machine which can verify to a central server that the data its sending can only possibly have been sent by one machine using exactly the same software as it had when it left the factory,nobody has intercepted any of the messages or inserted any messages of their own between the voting machine and the central server,nobody has stollen the original machine killed all the operators and replaced them with their own machine and operators ,etc etc and that is what is extremely difficult if not impossible to do.certainly there are algorimths which allow a remote machine to indentify itself to a remote server using mutual authentication codes that are so difficult to break that it would take all the computers in the world until the sun goes cold to break, but according to all the cryptography experts who have looked at the problem it is so dificult to make a verfiable voting machine I dont think your scheme is going to statisfy them any more than the current voting machines do.You have to remember you are not part of the cryptography community have spent their lifes looking at this problem and i am afraid that your scheme just would not stand a cat in hells chance.


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TopicAuthorDate
automated voting            01/01/70 00:00      
   I think you fell off the rocker            01/01/70 00:00      
      Huh?            01/01/70 00:00      
         tamper and audit            01/01/70 00:00      
            Backwards            01/01/70 00:00      
               lack of relevance            01/01/70 00:00      
                  Not a problem for the real "bad guys" ...            01/01/70 00:00      
                     reversed argtument            01/01/70 00:00      
   electronic voting, a very very very bad idea.            01/01/70 00:00      
      you can read Schneier on security here            01/01/70 00:00      
   Automated voting - a good idea.            01/01/70 00:00      
      a paper trail and lots of sunlight ...            01/01/70 00:00      
   Did you accidentally vote for Pat Buchannan?            01/01/70 00:00      
      If that were the case ...            01/01/70 00:00      
         Cute!            01/01/70 00:00      
   Often thought that            01/01/70 00:00      
      Sadly, there's ample reason to agree ...            01/01/70 00:00      
   I think you are entirely missing the point            01/01/70 00:00      
      I don't think that's necessary            01/01/70 00:00      

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