Re: meeting re: defining requirements for cryptographically verifiable voting software?

["Lucas Rocha" <lucasr at mundo gmail com>]

Hei,

My suggestion is that we discuss this during our weekly meeting on
IRC. What do you think? Can I add this to the agenda?

--lucasr


2007/3/3, Luis Villa <luis tieguy org>:
> Hey, all-
>
> Ben Adida (cc'd) is a friend of mine from my time at Harvard, and a
> friend of open source. He's also a researcher on crypto and voting,
> having recently done his PhD on it at MIT.
>
> Ben and I were talking several months ago about the desirability of
> such a thing for GNOME, and he suggested he might be interested in
> helping to implement such a system for us. I then promptly dropped the
> ball :)
>
> This came back up again the other day, when I discovered that Ryan,
> Vincent, and other members of the membership committee had been
> discussing crypto voting for use in GNOME's elections.
>
> Long story short, Ben proposed having a meeting with interested GNOME
> parties, so that he can understand GNOME's voting requirements. I
> can't make any promises for him, but he has told me that he'd be very
> interested in knowing GNOME's requirements for a voting system and
> using that to figure out whether or not he can help out in design
> and/or implementation.
>
> I'm not involved from here on out- I'm swamped. But I hope this brief
> introduction is the start of a beautiful, productive relationship.
> Vincent, think you can pick up discussion and meeting scheduling from
> here? Thanks :)
>
> Luis
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