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- From: schneier@chinet.chi.il.us (Bruce Schneier)
- Subject: Re: Cryptographic voting
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- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 06:28:52 GMT
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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.
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- Bruce
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