2009/7/14 Pablo Manalastas <[email protected]>: > > The local counts (ERs) will be digitally signed by the BEI, > so they might want to digitally sign everything: tiff images, audit logs, > etc, before these are uploaded to a publicly accessible server. > The only problem is, there might not be enough bandwidth to move all that > data around at the close of polls on election day. The cellular networks > could crash under that much load. If they are moved to servers later on, > after some period of wait, then independent parties can not do a "quick > count" on their own. > > So it really is a serious problem -- the network.
very true especially on slow wireless networks (eg. gprs/edge)... i was thinking to upload first the ER and later on the TIFF images and others just to speed the counting... fooler. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
