>>"Sven" == Sven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sven> Was this md5sum not supposed to be sent in the aknowledgement
``Supposed'' to be? I don't think that it was decided to modify the vote system, no. The best I recall is some discussion last year about secret ballot protocols, but that is as far as it went. Sven> mail of the ballot, so it would only be comparing two md5sums, Sven> quite easy to do. Two cut&pastes should do the job, nothing Sven> arcane involved here ? And, of course, you then lose the benefit of having the md5sums, since I could slip the same md5sum to more than one person. I guess it would still be a deterrent, since I would never know who all did not really check the md5sum. Is it really that hard to run md5sum? Can we really survive as a project if the developers feel that way? Allow me to demonstrate. (Note: since my userid is srivasta, and if my secret token was 0123456789ABXDE, then i get: --------------------------------------------------------- % echo "srivasta 0123456789ABXDE" | md5sum f305c07513500e690a7f98f10c52a7fc ---------------------------------------------------------- I can even do this: % egrep $(echo "srivasta 0123456789ABXDE" | md5sum) tally.txt and see that my vote is valid. How hard was that? I guess I'll change the ack to put i a command line. I am not going to ship the md5sum in the ack, so there. manoj note: anyone who cannot substitute their login if for `srivasta' above, or interpolate their own token, is encouraged to vote again, the new ack shall interpolate them for you. -- Within a computer, natural language is unnatural. Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/> 1024R/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]