Imagine a simple device similar in appearance to a calculator. For registration, voter verifies his identity to a human, selects a random one of these devices from a box, places it into a writing machine. Voter selects a PIN, enters this into the machine. Machine permanently burns random private key to the device and saves public key and PIN encrypted with private key.
To vote, website displays a random number. User enters this into device along with voting selection and PIN. Device displays hash of encrypted hash of these values. User enters displayed number into website. Website saves originally displayed number plus user-returned result. To verify, same process except website can indicate whether user-returned number match last entry.
If coerced, use a wrong PIN. It will still verify but will not be counted.
Most people don't understand most science, that doesn't mean we shouldn't use it to improve the world. The technology will be built and proven by people who understand it, then other people will trust those people. People agreed to bug-riddled voting machines, why wouldn't they agree to something that can actually be mathematically proven to be secure?
But you don't have to place your trust in an entity, that's the whole idea of blockchain. The encryption starts with you so the only entity you have to trust is yourself. Well, that and math.
Having a person linked with a public record does not necessarily make the identity of that person public. Cryptography can allow a voter to be able to verify their vote without others being able to link the vote to the voter.
What sounds stupid is your lack of understanding of the technology involved. Having a person linked with a public record does not necessarily make the identity of that person public. Welcome to cryptography.
Also, the issues Bitcoin has had are not technological. The idea of the blockchain is sound and the technology can be used for other things.
Most school shootings do not involve explosive devices. Of course there are a million ways to hurt people and you can't ban all of their components but guns are a no-brainer considering they have no other purpose than to kill.
Instead of installing dead kid detectors (which is pretty much what these would end up being) just ban guns. All of them.
It's so much harder to mow down your schoolmates when your father doesn't have a gun in the house for you to find.
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The 360 isn't x86, it's PowerPC.
Imagine a simple device similar in appearance to a calculator. For registration, voter verifies his identity to a human, selects a random one of these devices from a box, places it into a writing machine. Voter selects a PIN, enters this into the machine. Machine permanently burns random private key to the device and saves public key and PIN encrypted with private key.
To vote, website displays a random number. User enters this into device along with voting selection and PIN. Device displays hash of encrypted hash of these values. User enters displayed number into website. Website saves originally displayed number plus user-returned result. To verify, same process except website can indicate whether user-returned number match last entry.
If coerced, use a wrong PIN. It will still verify but will not be counted.
Something like that.
Good thing my political views are the right ones.
You know, you should really be a bigot. *click*
Democracy - the system whereby you vote for people to represent you and and up with no representation.
I naively intended that as a rhetorical question but yours definitely sounds like the right answer. What a blatant abuse of power, it's sickening.
if the Five Eyes slurp it all up anyway? They already have access to these data, why bother making ISPs keep it too?
Until every phone has a fingerprint sensor.
Indubitably.
Maybe just the women.
I can't help but think of those planes that fly banner ads over cities.
I guess if people don't mind using an operating system from the world's largest ad network they're probably ok with getting internet from them, too.
And thus we should not strive for it? Ignorance should not be a reason to continue with the status quo.
Most people don't understand most science, that doesn't mean we shouldn't use it to improve the world. The technology will be built and proven by people who understand it, then other people will trust those people. People agreed to bug-riddled voting machines, why wouldn't they agree to something that can actually be mathematically proven to be secure?
But you don't have to place your trust in an entity, that's the whole idea of blockchain. The encryption starts with you so the only entity you have to trust is yourself. Well, that and math.
No one has asserted that blockchain-based voting is good because voting is hard. As I said, the issue is verifiability.
We should put our trust in cryptography, yes.
Having a person linked with a public record does not necessarily make the identity of that person public. Cryptography can allow a voter to be able to verify their vote without others being able to link the vote to the voter.
The idea is not merely to increase voter turnout, it's to implement a system that cannot be gamed.
If only the voter can perform the verification then anonymity is maintained.
Blockchain-based voting doesn't require users to be remote. Physical voting booths could run the software.
What sounds stupid is your lack of understanding of the technology involved. Having a person linked with a public record does not necessarily make the identity of that person public. Welcome to cryptography. Also, the issues Bitcoin has had are not technological. The idea of the blockchain is sound and the technology can be used for other things.
It sucks not having a 5k monitor eh?
Most school shootings do not involve explosive devices. Of course there are a million ways to hurt people and you can't ban all of their components but guns are a no-brainer considering they have no other purpose than to kill.
I'm not trolling at all, thank you very much. This is a serious solution to a serious problem.
Instead of installing dead kid detectors (which is pretty much what these would end up being) just ban guns. All of them. It's so much harder to mow down your schoolmates when your father doesn't have a gun in the house for you to find.