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Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key
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arstechnica.com
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awkwardpotato
8 days ago
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salawat
8 days ago
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Cryptography: The arcane art of turning already difficult problem spaces into the same problem space + key management.
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avidiax
7 days ago
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I feel the big news here (to me) is that there is a practical privacy preserving verifiable cryptographic voting system.
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s1mplicissimus
7 days ago
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As if machine based voting were not a democratic nightmare if only people didn't lose their keys.
What a pile of garbage
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N19PEDL2
7 days ago
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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.
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abstractspoon
7 days ago
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You couldn't make this shit up
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throwawayqqq11
7 days ago
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In 3.27e15 years you can.
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