Re: Security markings on the ballot

Chris Schaefer <evm@1reality.org> wrote:
|The ONLY way to do this is to use cryptography...

I'm with Chris in STRONGLY wanting an actual cryptographic approach,
rather than some easily forgeable watermark/image thing. I proposed a
specific protocol back in July, actually.

(See http://gnosis.python-hosting.com/voting-project/initial-digests/0109.html)

In fact, I believe it would be much better to entirely omit ANY ballot
validation marks until we use a proper cryptographic approach. For the
demo, we would be better off ignoring the issue altogether than raising
a bunch of questions we cannot answer about the flaws in a image mark
system. The cryptographic approach is both sufficient and necessary.

Yours, David...

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