Jan,
> Talking about the obfuscation, I realized that it is not good
> as it is. It will be very easy to recognize bar codes on ballots
> with all votes blank. If the ballot number is abcd, then the
> bar code number will be abcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcdabcd
> (plus the additional start/stop/checksum) i.e. a repeating pattern.
>
I don't think we need to worry about this. All votes blank is not a valid
ballot. The obfuscation routine we have now will be fine for the demo.
This issue will be revisited for the production software development.
Alan D.
==================================================================
= The content of this message, with the exception of any external
= quotations under fair use, are released to the Public Domain
==================================================================
Received on Fri Oct 31 23:17:01 2003
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Fri Oct 31 2003 - 23:17:07 CST