"Roy M. Silvernail" wrote: > > On Wednesday 01 October 2003 17:33, R. A. Hettinga forwarded: > > > VeriSign tapped to secure Internet voting > > > "The solution we are building will enable absentee voters to exercise > > their right to vote," said George Schu, a vice president at VeriSign. "The > > sanctity of the vote can't be compromised nor can the integrity of the > > system be compromised--it's security at all levels." > > One would wish that were a design constraint. Sadly, I'm afraid it's just a > bullet point from the brochure.
It's actually quite cunning. The reason that this is going to work is because the voters are service men & women, and if they attack the system, they'll get their backsides tanned. Basically, it should be relatively easy to put together a secure voting application under the limitations, control structures and security infrastructure found within the US military. It would be a mistake to apply the solution to wider circumstances, and indeed another mistake to assume that Verisign had anything to do with any purported "success" in "solving" the voting problem. iang --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
