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Article #921Re: Cryptographic voting
From: Bruce Schneier
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 06:28
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 06:28
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In article <9208162214.AA21945@news.cis.ohio-state.edu> Marc.Ringuette@daisy.learning.cs.cmu.edu writes: >A recent newswire article about suggestions to allow telephone voting >got me thinking about the possibility of running a cryptographically >secure presidential election via email. I claim that the problem is >very similar to the problem of untraceable electronic cash, and that >with a little work, we could concoct a secure protocol for running >national elections by email, using known technology. > >I made this claim on a local newsgroup, and a colleague, Doug Tygar, There is a secure voting protocol in _Security_in_Computing_, by Charles Pfleeger (Prentice Hall, 1989), pages 144-145. As written, the protocol has a problem but it can be fixed. Bruce **************************************************************************** * Bruce Schneier * Counterpane Systems For a good prime, call 391581 * 2^216193 - 1 * schneier@chinet.chi.il.us ****************************************************************************
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Newsgroups: sci.crypt Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!uwm.edu!daffy!uwvax!uchinews!machine!chinet!schneier From: schneier@chinet.chi.il.us (Bruce Schneier) Subject: Re: Cryptographic voting Message-ID: <BtBM04.6y2@chinet.chi.il.us> Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX References: <9208162214.AA21945@news.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 06:28:52 GMT Lines: 21