Re: Secret votes HOWTO

["John H. Robinson, IV" <jhriv@ucsd.edu>]

On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 02:29:41PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote:
> 
> The idea I like the most so far is the 'user-supplied random nonce'
> idea. I like this idea because using a collection of other data is
> liable to failure because stupid email systems manage to molest email
> in the strangest fashion: "From " to ">From ", etc.

user-supplied random data plus system-generated random data would
probably be required, to prevent collision between Alice and Bob both
supplying the same random data.

-john