[Vision2020] Fwd: Help us get to 200,000 by tomorrow

[Ry Jones]

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This is already done; it's called PGP. You can PGP sign your
messages, and if the signature is able to be validated, it was signed
by the person it says it was signed by.

If you wanted to use this for official stuff (voting over the
internet), then you need to sign it with a key that the vote counter
knows is from you. How you establish this the first time is
non-trivial.

Ry

PS: http://www.votehere.net/ sells voting hardware/software based on
similar technology. Since it would eliminate many types of elections
fraud, I don't think we'll ever see it in the US.

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From: vision2020-admin@moscow.com
[mailto:vision2020-admin@moscow.com] On Behalf Of Robert Dickow
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 5:33 PM
To: vision2020@moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Fwd: Help us get to 200,000 by tomorrow

I find this thread interesting. I agree that email and online methods
of
poling and petitioning are suspect, and prone to abuse. But given the
increasing dependency and use of electronic media for communication,
it
would be a shame to rule it out as a resource.
What this implies is that we need a secure, verifiable system of some
kind
that would instill confidence in the results on the part of
authorities,
politicians, fellow citizens, etc. This *should* be possible. Let's
make
noise, and maybe some clever programmers will begin to address this
concern.

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