[ExI] trump's hormones

[John Clark]

On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 1:19 PM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:

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>> Why couldn't I use public key encryption? I digitally sign my completed
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>> ballot with my secret key, the one I generated when I first registered to
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>> vote, as proof that the ballot could only have come from me. Then I
>> encrypt
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>> the message with the election office's public key ( and if I were a belt
>> and
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>> suspenders sort of mood I could encrypt it a second time with my secret
>> key)
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>> and then Email the entire thing to the election office, who after
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>> decoding
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>> it with their secret key (and perhaps with my public key if I encrypted
>> it a
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>> second time) could then could publicly say "John Clark voted on this date
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>>  and the following is is a record of how he voted that we encrypted with
>> John
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>> Clark's public key so that can only be decrypted by his secret key that is
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>> available only to him so he can make sure everything is OK ."  I could
>> then
>> double check that there was no funny business going on.
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> With your ballot, perhaps, but you'd have no way to verify the total.
> "You voted for X.  We claim only 20 people voted for X, and the other
> 80 voted for Y."
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​The idea isn't to find the perfect voting system, you're never going to
have that, it's just to find one that is more secure,  easier to use, and
cheaper to implement than anything we have now.​

​

 John K Clark




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