Re: Concerns about the election process

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 05:22 -0500, Ryan Lortie wrote:
> "Ok.  I took your random input, plus your votes, plus your name.  I
> then
> took an SHA1 sum of the concatenation of these things and got _____.
> Please verify that I am not lying to you by running SHA1 on your own
> system." 

Just tell them to verify it like this:

$ echo 'behdad behdad org:1,2,3,4,5,6,7:abcdef' | sha1sum 
ae5e06b9c94fb2df47048d3dfbc3fc89738e48f6  -


Having votes in the hash makes sure a voter cannot lie about who they
voted for later, but anyway.


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