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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. Different for the sake of being different. by Stochio · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you look through the file it has references to java files, pascal files, C++ files, and perl files. I don't get it. I understand that in this document just the hashes are listed to source code - but does this also imply that the source code is being distributed?
    On an additional note, I see references to jpg, gif,and bmp files. I must be interpreting this files incorrectly. Why else would source code of 4+ high-level languages and 3+ image formats be in the same project?