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U.S. Voting Software Hashes Made Public

Posted by michael on from the hash-and-eggs dept.

fibonacci2000 writes "From the NIST website: 'This effort is a first step in being able to trace software from the vendor through the accreditation process to the states and other purchasers of voting systems. Now election authorities have a reference database to compare with the digital signatures of software provided to them by vendors.'"

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  1. Let me be the first to say by commodoresloat · · Score: 4, Funny

    And I, for one, welcome our new democratically elected overlords!

  2. I'm going to get fried for this, but... by St.+Arbirix · · Score: 2, Funny

    Look people before everyone gets pissed off at me for writing some of the software for these machines let me just tell you I didn't really intend it to be like this. It was originally just some DMV model I wrote in CompSci 212. How it got into the voting system I'm required by NDA to not disclose, but let me just say it was worth the full ride into grad school.

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  3. Re:This is meaningless. by commodoresloat · · Score: 2, Funny
    The voting software's already open to tampering, so a hash is meaningless.

    Actually, it's so open to tampering, it makes me want to smoke hash.

  4. In Soviet Russia by clickster · · Score: 1, Funny

    The software hashes YOU!!!

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