Re: smartcards, electronic ballots

2001-02-04 Thread Ed Gerck
David Honig wrote: First of all, that's not "privacy", that's "anonymity". We have voter registration precisely so that we know who the voters are! We are not changing voter registration Ed Gerck wrote: 4. Fail-safe privacy in universal verifiability. If the encrypted

Re: smartcards, electronic ballots

2001-02-04 Thread John R. Levine
The voting apparatus may keep a serial record of each vote, in order, for auditing purposes. This is also mentioned in WAS's legislative text. Good lord no. Here in NY, the inspectors write down each voter's name on a log sheet with the names numbered in order, and write down the numbers in

Re: electronic ballots

2001-02-04 Thread Arnold G. Reinhold
At 1:01 PM -0500 2/4/2001, John Kelsey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 11:02 PM 1/27/01 -0500, William Allen Simpson wrote: ... "Arnold G. Reinhold" wrote: There are a lot of reasons why open source is desirable, but it does simply the job for an attacker. I disagree. Security

Re: smartcards, electronic ballots

2001-02-04 Thread William Allen Simpson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- David Honig wrote: If you give people a paper receipt with their votes on it (as WAS's scheme mentions) then their votes can be bought or blackmailed. I'm unaware of how that interpretation might have arisen? I don't see anything in the proposed text

Re: smartcards, electronic ballots

2001-02-04 Thread William Allen Simpson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I'm sorry for the second message, but I could not let the egregious error pass uncorrected: Ed Gerck wrote: The law does not allow it, and for good reasons as you mention. ... The voting apparatus may keep a serial record of each vote, in order, for

Re: smartcards, electronic ballots

2001-02-04 Thread Ed Gerck
William Allen Simpson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I'm sorry for the second message, but I could not let the egregious error pass uncorrected: :-) egregious ... Ed Gerck wrote: The law does not allow it, and for good reasons as you mention. ... The voting apparatus

Re: smartcards, electronic ballots

2001-02-04 Thread William Allen Simpson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- David Honig wrote: From "Ballot Proposal" version 1.3 10 B DISPLAY (5) Election software shall print the selected choices on a fixed visible medium (such as paper), and shall require the voter to affirm those choices prior to