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Re: many rejects (Re: Second call for votes for the debian project leader election 2007)



On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:02:49 -0500, Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> said: 

> On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:23:38 +0200, Michal Čihař <michal@cihar.com>
> said:
>> Hi On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:23:28 +0200
>> Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> wrote:

>>> If you encrypt to yourself, how is the voting system supposed to
>>> decrypt it?

>> It was encrypted for two keys, both of them can decrypt it.

>         It turns out that it was indeed encrypted, but the message
>         was
>  not signed; which means there is no information about who is
>  sending the ballot. This is a legitimate addition to the ballot;
>  I'll point it out in the next CFV.

        Hmm. Turns out, that ballot already mentioned that "you may, if
 you wish, choose to send a signed, encrypted ballot".   The operative
 word is "signed", which the ballot in question was not.

        manoj
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