* Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-03-28 08:25:02 -0500]:

>         I think your options are to send in an ascii armored encrypted
>  ballot, or use mutt or gnus to send a proper  PGP/MIME signed
>  ballot. Either should work.


It is really this simple to do using mutt.

1. To encrypt the vote you need to have the key. It could be accomplished in
several ways. They way I did it was by copying

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
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=qZVb
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

from the call for votes email into a file such as foo.txt and running

$gpg --import foo.txt

This will get the ephemeral voting key into your keyring.

2. To show that it's your vote you must sign the email. So, when you are
ready to forward the "call for votes" email that has your votes set to the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] address you hit "p" (to go into the gpg interface
in mutt) and then "b" for "both" i.e. sign and encrypt. Enter your passphrase
as asked and off you go.

Cheers,

Alex.

P.S.: I did have one vote rejection as I carelessly chose "e" for encrypt
instead of "b" for both in mutt the first time. Oh, well.

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