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Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key | Better HN
Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key
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(arstechnica.com)
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awkwardpotato
4mo ago
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salawat
4mo ago
Cryptography: The arcane art of turning already difficult problem spaces into the same problem space + key management.
avidiax
4mo ago
I feel the big news here (to me) is that there is a practical privacy preserving verifiable cryptographic voting system.
s1mplicissimus
4mo 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
4mo 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
4mo ago
You couldn't make this shit up
throwawayqqq11
4mo ago
In 3.27e15 years you can.
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