Re: Spec for anonymous voting

[Davyd Madeley <davyd madeley id au>]

On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 20:38 +0200, David Neary wrote:

> During GUADEC, the point was mentioned that there was no-one working on 
> anonymous voting, and no clear idea how to do it. Myself and Vincent 
> Untz brainstormed for a while, and got input from a number of other 
> people (crevette, Seth Nickell, Brian Clark, others that I have 
> forgotten becase this was during the party Monday night).

I would have loved to have chatted about this. I did a specification for
this about this time last year.

While considered over-engineered by some, I think it's provably secure.

http://oracle.bridgeway.net.au/~davyd/misc/gnome-voting/

A number of the original drawbacks I had identified can now be resolved.
There are nowadays existing IP anonymising services, and the other
problems should be easily solved.

Just another proposal thrown to the wind. I see this implemented as a
stand alone application, after all... this is GNOME!

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