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Re: Secret votes HOWTO



On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 02:48:51PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> 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.

Alternatively, the user's debian-id could be included (since this is
guaranteed to be unique for any valid voter).

However, you still need some source of randomness (user-supplied is best,
I think) to avoid dictionary analysis of the acknowledgement hash.

-- 
Raul



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