Professors at John Hopkins and Rice Universities wrote wrote a critical report saying that there is "no evidence of regorous software engineering discipline and the "cryptology, when used at all, is used incorrectly". SAIC, a Maryland based engineering and research firm, also write a critical report recommending 17 steps that Maryland elections officials could take to ensure better security.
In Belgium we have exactly the same conclusion from the carefull independant analyse of the voting code...
http://www.afront.be/lib/vote.html
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Casual inspection off the code reveals obvious errors (3),(5) from which we deduce scant peer review of the code, if any, has taken place. Nor do we see evidence that somebody has tackled the problem of creating entropy for the encryption keys (2). Also troubling is the fact that keeping the voting anonymous isn't high on the priorities list: global and stack variables are not zeroed after their useful lifetime has expired (1).
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David GLAUDE
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