[extropy-chat] [psl at acm.org: ACTION ALERT: Blackwell purgedOhio Voter Rolls Oct 1st.- Vote Early!]

[Eugen Leitl]

On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 12:30:14AM -0700, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:

> An additional problem is that false-positive votes can be added to the 
> system.  Messick's system permits false-negative votes, too.
> 
> I'm sure this problem has been studied by cryptanalysts - I dimly recall 
> hearing about some clever system involving blinded signatures.

You're still not getting the problem. There are many secure protocols.
Protocols are useless if Jack and Jill can't verify them in location.
Jack and Jill don't understand cryptography, and about nobody understands
verifying tamper-proof systems.

It's just a non-issue, paper works just great. Don't put anything
in place which can be exploited. Unverifyable systems can and will.

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Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org
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