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Re: Secret votes HOWTO



On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 04:21:30PM +0200, Roland Mas wrote:
> Anton Zinoviev (2001-03-31 13:08:47 +0300) :
> > > Name: Anton Zinoviev
> > > Email: zinoviev@debian.org
> > > Id: zinoviev
> > > Ballot: 231
> > > VoteNumber: 159  <-- this is new information.
> 
> If we want to go that way, I suggest that the vote number be
> randomised, so as not to allow people to guess who voted for whom from
> the vote number (which seems to be related to the date/time the vote
> was received in the proposed scheme).

Eh?  Why give people a number?  Why not just use the cryptographic hash of
their ballot message?  One has to be calculated to GPG-sign it anyway.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson             |    There's nothing an agnostic can't do
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