While I can't speak directly to the code involved, I want to say that I'm excited by Ben's involvement- I worked with him when I was at Harvard and he is a great guy, doing very interesting thinking. We're lucky to have him involved, and with luck, I look forward to voting with Helios in the next election.
Luis On 3/12/07, Ben Adida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > My name is Ben Adida, I'm a postdoc fellow at Harvard working on crypto > and public policy. I spend a bunch of my time on voting systems, in > particular those that let you or anyone audit the process from end to > end. If you haven't encountered these systems before, they're > significantly more powerful than your average voting system, with or > without a "paper trail." > > I'm currently implementing Helios, a voting system with this open-audit > property. Last week, I was on the GNOME MC irc, where I collected > requirements for the GNOME election and explained Helios in a bit more > detail. If the system is eventually good enough, the goal is to have > GNOME and potentially other free software groups use it in elections and > referenda. > > I've started a publicly accessible and CC-licensed wiki: > > http://helios.stikipad.com/ > > I will keep this wiki updated with the full design and, more > importantly, pointers to partial demos as they become stable enough. Of > course the whole codebase will be free/open-source: I will move it to a > public source repository as soon as it's in decent v0.1 shape (2-3 months). > > Your thoughts/comments/questions/criticisms are welcome, either on the > wiki as public comment, or to me personally. > > > -Ben Adida > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://ben.adida.net > http://benlog.com > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
