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A Secure and Verifiable Voting System
meese writes "The cryptographer David Chaum, through discussion with top cryptographers such as Ron Rivest, has designed a secure and verifiable voting system. One of the goals of his design is that anyone can verify that votes were tabulated correctly. It's good to see real security/crypto people working on this problem. They also have a press release."
DAK GETS IT!
:D
Why not just let whoever gets first post be el prezidente?!!
Don't like it here in the good old US of A?! Piss off and move to fucking Germany, asshole!!!111
-- A proud patriot and Republican voter
The OP made out like they've just started researching this but research has been going on for years..
:)
Applied Cryptography 2 gives a good run down on digital voting!
The protocol is probably quite complex and might not scale that well so i wouldn't hold your breath. The complexity of protocol might make it difficult to code securely too..
It's all good research though
A new goatse pic, goatse man outside!!!
Florida + Chads + Supreme Court + Candidate's brother + Inventor of the Internet + David Boies + Butterfly Ballot + Imbecile voters + Green Party spoiler = Dolt in Office
And we made sure there's no useful legal remedy against you!
As an added bonus, we're going to require, at no extra charge, already included in your kind and generous campaign donations, a special feature whereby your victims have to go to your very own webpage to hunt for some "opt-out" mechanism - wink wink!
Just think of all the pop up ads you can sell!
Spamming has never been so profitable and thanks to your very own congresspeople, such as Billy Tauzin, every legitimate business trying to pump up next quarter's earnings has a whole new "legitimate" revenue stream!
We heard your concerns that requiring an identifier might make effective spam filters possible, reducing the profitability of the CPU time and disk space of your victims that you steal, so we made sure the mechanism is utterly useless by making it illegal for the FTC to define a uniform identifier!
But what's that you say - those jail times and fines sound scary? Not to worry - nobody but the FTC can even instigate a prosecution and to do so, your victims have to "prove" your address obfuscation was intentional haha! Ever hear of someone proving a negative?
So no worries - you're home free, thanks to us, your humble legislative servants. We've delivered, now give us our next contribution.
Sincerely,
Congress.
Read the spec.
...oh wait...
It involves a form of visual encryption that allows someone to overlay their otherwise unintelligible receipt on top of another otherwise unintelligible receipt kept by poling stations. The result is the ballot they cast.
If one thing has been proven by Microsoft and Apple, it's that users respond to eye candy. The proposed solution shows them the security in an "ooh...cool" kinda way. People will go vote for the entertainment value alone.
BTW...publishing votes is a horrible idea...do you really want organized crime lords becomming president through corruption and intimidation?
What can be proven outside the voting booth is that the vote was valid and counted in the process. What the actual vote was cannot be proven without releasing every audit step... and part of the paradigm is that half of the audit steps are released.
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Sorry to bitch about your sig but it is truly lame. First off any negative number squared is equal to it's absolute squared. It's called a root for a reason.
e.g.
(-A)^2 = A^2 therefore for all A in \bbbz A = 0.
Which is total and utter nonsense.
People like you dumb society down too much. Go play in traffic or something.
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.