On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 08:52:35PM -0800, Joseph Ashwood wrote:
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From: Andrea Pasquinucci [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Cryptography cryptography@metzdowd.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: Intuitive cryptography that's also practical and secure.
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Andrea Pasquinucci wrote:
or to sit next to a
coercer with a gun watching her voting.
The fact that the voter is remote and outside a controlled location
makes it impossible to guarantee incoercibility and no-vote-selling.
This is not a crypto or IT problem. I do not think (correct me if
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Leichter, Jerry wrote:
This is a common misconception. The legal system does not rely on
lawyers, judges, members of Congress, and so on understanding how
technology or science works. It doesn't rely on them coming to
accept the trustworthiness of the technology on any
| ...I agree with you about intuitive cryptography. What you're
| complaining about is, in effect, Why Johnny Can't Hash. There was
| another instance of that in today's NY Times. In one of the court
| cases stemming from the warrantless wiretapping, the Justice
| Department is, in the holy
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:10:47 -0500 (EST)
Leichter, Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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| ...There's an obvious cryptographic solution, of course: publish the
| hash of any such documents. Practically speaking, it's useless.
| Apart from having to explain hash functions to lawyers, judges,
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| | ...There's an obvious cryptographic solution, of course: publish the
| | hash of any such documents. Practically speaking, it's useless.
| | Apart from having to explain hash functions to lawyers, judges,
| | members of Congress, editorial page writers, bloggers, and talk
| | show
of the passphrase consisting of
the answer might be something to consider? Not perfect but...
--Anton
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Blaze
Sent: January 26, 2007 5:58 PM
To: Cryptography
Subject: Intuitive cryptography that's also
Matt Blaze wrote:
an even more important problem
than psychic debunking, namely electronic voting. I think intuitive
cryptography is a very important open problem for our field.
The first problem of voting is that neither side (paper vote vs e-vote)
accepts that voting is hard to do right --
[Perry, please use this one if possible]
Matt Blaze wrote:
an even more important problem
than psychic debunking, namely electronic voting. I think intuitive
cryptography is a very important open problem for our field.
Matt,
You mentioned in your blog about the crypto solutions for voting
I was surprised to discover that one of James Randi's million dollar
paranormal challenges is protected by a surprisingly weak (dictionary-
based) commitment scheme that is easily reversed and that suffers from
collisions. For details, see my blog entry about it:
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