Diebold Source Code!!!

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Jim Balter <jim () balter name>
Date: November 10, 2004 9:39:43 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Diebold Source Code!!!

[for IP]

This "breaking news" is more that a year old:
http://www.eff.org/Activism/E-voting/20030724_evote_research_report.pdf

There was a recent article on that study:
http://www.jewishtimes.com/scripts/edition.pl?now=5/25/ 
1999&SubSectionID=48&ID=2435

"Diebold says the programming in the machines it sells now - including  
those to be used in Maryland - is not the same programming the Hopkins  
study looked at. Since the programming also is proprietary and Diebold  
won't show any new versions to anyone, the claims must go unverified,  
which is a whole other problem."


On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 20:56:45 -0500
 David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:
> no confirmation djf
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: Jay Fenello <Jay () Fenello com>
> Date: November 10, 2004 6:58:20 PM EST
> To: dave () farber net
> Cc: Ken Deifik <kenneth.d () adelphia net>
> Subject: Diebold Source Code!!!
>
>
>
>   FYI:
>
>   At 11/10/2004  06:40 PM, CLG News wrote:
>
> News Update from Citizens for Legitimate Government
>    November 10, 2004
>   http://www.legitgov.org/
>    http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news
>
>
> Diebold Source Code!!! --by ouranos (dailykos.com) "Dr. Avi Rubin is  
> currently Professor of Computer Science at John Hopkins University. He  
> 'accidentally' got his hands on a copy of the Diebold software  
> program--Diebold's source code--which runs their e-voting machines.  
> Dr. Rubin's students pored over 48,609 lines of code that make up this  
> software. One line in particular stood out over all the rest:  
> #defineDESKEY((des_KEY8F2654hd4" All commercial programs have  
> provisions to be encrypted so as to protect them from having their  
> contents read or changed by anyone not having the key... The line that  
> staggered the Hopkins team was that the method used to encrypt the  
> Diebold machines was a method called Digital Encryption Standard  
> (DES), a code that was broken in 1997 and is NO LONGER USED by anyone  
> to secure programs. F2654hd4 was the key to the encryption. Moreover,  
> because the KEY was IN the source code, all Diebold machines would  
> respond to the same key. Unlock one, you have then ALL
> unlocked. I can't believe there is a person alive who wouldn't  
> understand the reason this was allowed to happen. This wasn't a  
> mistake by any stretch of the imagination."
>
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