Re: GNOME Foundation Annual Elections - proposal

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

On 12/09/03 23:43, Xavier Bestel wrote:

> Le ven 12/09/2003 à 13:03, Alan Cox a écrit :
>  
>
> > There must be oversight of the number of
> > keys generated, and the number of keys in the results. That is we must
> > be able to see that nobody fabricated voters.
> >
> > One easy way to do this is to embed a count into the string (while
> > taking care to issue the numbers in random order not say
> > alphabetically!)
> >
> > You can then issue    0001[randombits]  0002[randombits] ....
> >    
> Then why the random bits ?
>  
So that the voting keys can't be guessed (ie. if my voting key was 0042, 
I might be able to guess that 0043 is also a legal voting key and make a 
second vote).

James.

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