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Re: Democracy in Debian



On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 04:09:04PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > I guess the decryption key for encrypted ballots would be of some
> > issue, but that's about it.
> Presumably the decryption key could be unlocked after the election and
> placed alongside the balots; since it should expire and be revoked
> after the completion of the vote, this shouldn't pose much of a
> problem.

You'd want to avoid having that let people fake signed ACKs though,
which would allow a hypothetical malicious developer to bring the
mailbox presented into doubt. But I guess you could probably reveal the
decyrption key without revealing the signing key, or just use subkeys
for that purpose anyway.

Cheers,
aj

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