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RE: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes
From: "David Schwartz" <davids () webmaster com>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:01:41 -0700
Second, to those of us as above, they provide confidence only to the extent that we trust the code being run (which at the least requires it to run on our own computers, and preferably is written by us; I'd trust code I wrote, even though it might have bugs; I'd trust code Bruce wrote, because I know and trust him. I'd trust, to a lesser degree, code that Bruce vetted, because I know how hard it is to examine code and how easy it is to slip something in that's very hard to find.)
This criticism is not correct. The whole point of cryptographically-secure voting systems is that you *don't* have to trust the code being run. If your vote wasn't counted, you can trivially demontrate this. If a group of Democrats in Florida want ot make sure all their members votes were counted, they can easily do so. If someone pressures you to vote a particular way, you can prove that it is impossible for anyone to know how you voted. And so on. With the schemes proposed, about the only thing someone can do is physically prevent you from voting. Any other kind of tampering would be detectable by anyone who audited the cryptographic records. All you need to do is require that those records be public. DS
Current thread:
- Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes, (continued)
- Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes Jay Hennigan (Sep 22)
- Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes Homer (Sep 22)
- Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes Rainer Duffner (Sep 22)
- Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes Mike Ely (Sep 22)
- Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes Claudius Li (Sep 25)
- Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes Seth Breidbart (Sep 27)
- RE: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes David Schwartz (Sep 28)
- Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes Adam Shostack (Sep 29)
- RE: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes David Schwartz (Sep 29)
- Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes Seth Breidbart (Sep 29)
- Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes Claudius Li (Sep 25)
- Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes Enrique A. Chaparro (Sep 28)
- Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes Dana Hudes (Sep 29)
- Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes Patrick J. Kobly (Sep 28)