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Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key
(
arstechnica.com
)
50 points
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awkwardpotato
3 months ago
6 comments
salawat
3 months ago
Cryptography: The arcane art of turning already difficult problem spaces into the same problem space + key management.
avidiax
3 months ago
I feel the big news here (to me) is that there is a practical privacy preserving verifiable cryptographic voting system.
3 months ago
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s1mplicissimus
3 months ago
As if machine based voting were not a democratic nightmare if only people didn't lose their keys.
What a pile of garbage
N19PEDL2
3 months ago
Another way to avoid this problem is to have 4 trustees and to split the key between them using Shamir's algorithm, so that 3 trustees are enough to reconstruct the whole key.
abstractspoon
3 months ago
You couldn't make this shit up
throwawayqqq11
3 months ago
In 3.27e15 years you can.