Hello Keith:
Respectfully, have you been a poll worker? Poll workers are generally elderly and retired folks. I've done a poll working gig and I have to back up Teresa here on the general ability level. Please give poll work a try yourself before assuming poll workers can do various things.
-- Thanks, Edmund R. Kennedy Always work for the common good. 10777 Bendigo Cove San Diego, CA 92126-2510 USA I blog now and then at: <http://ekennedyx.blogspot.com/> ----- Original Message ----- From: Teresa Hommel To: K@copetech.com ; Open Voting Consortium discussion list Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 4:32 AM Subject: Re: [OVC-discuss] Crypto question: Hashing ultimate outputfor localuse You have poll workers who can't find the on-off button on the computer, etc. How are they going to accomplish this task with hashes? Teresa Hommel Keith Copenhagen wrote: Hashing by itself is not a panacea, You start with a public ovc generated set of hashes that verify the starting point. For each election then the people running the election generate the original public private key pair (PK) and create a CD that contains a signed set. Then you build a web of trust (pyramid of delegation) based on PK the propogates out to the polling station, and then back to the tabulated record. Correlating and verifying the integrity of the log(s), then allows you to certify the election. If you have parallel signed logs (ie. 1 in the tabulator, and 1 in the operator's flash key) then it becomes virtually impossible to successfuly tamper with the data. If you simply verify the hash at the polling place, then you run the risk of an official duplicating the CD and running a parallel election and submitting that CD. -Keith On Sun, 1 May 2005 21:23:14 -0700, Ed Kennedy <ekennedyx@yahoo.com> wrote: Hello David: All very well and good. However, who would generate the Election Day startup hash of the whole disk if it must be customized for every election at every location? This introduces the need for another 'trusted' (read NOT) person in the administrative process and therefore another weak point. I think that you (all) are going to have to go with modules. Also, I think we're going to need some administrative process whereby either all the poll workers or at least the poll captain signs off that the hash they see is the one that was in the news paper. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ OVC discuss mailing lists Send requests to subscribe or unsubscribe to arthur@openvotingconsortium.org
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