Re: an open-audit voting system for GNOME elections

2007-03-22 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Ben, Ben Adida wrote: > Currently, I am developing this using HTML+Javascript with *some* calls > into the JVM for crypto. I may be able to eventually do these in pure > Javascript, especially if there's a strong need, though I am hoping > that's not necessary... BigNum in Javascript is going

Re: an open-audit voting system for GNOME elections

2007-03-21 Thread Ben Adida
Vincent Untz wrote: > Just wondering: on [1], Java is mentioned. Does it mean it'd be required > for each voter to have the java plugin? It might be an issue for some > people (well, maybe not in the future when java will be totally free). Currently, I am developing this using HTML+Javascript with

Re: an open-audit voting system for GNOME elections

2007-03-21 Thread Vincent Untz
Hi Ben, Le lundi 12 mars 2007, à 11:55, Ben Adida a écrit : > > 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.

Re: an open-audit voting system for GNOME elections

2007-03-13 Thread Quim Gil
Interesting, thanks for your interest in the GNOME democratic space. Is your project based in a specific voting system or can it integrate different ones? For instance, now we are using in GNOME a simple system of most-voted-get-elected, although there have been discussions about integrating a pre

Re: an open-audit voting system for GNOME elections

2007-03-12 Thread Luis Villa
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 e

an open-audit voting system for GNOME elections

2007-03-12 Thread Ben Adida
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 mor