Re: Secret votes HOWTO

[Raul Miller <moth@debian.org>]

On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 03:52:00PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> i was thinking something like:
> ---cut here---
> To: vote-counter@debian.org
> From: Alice <alice@example.org>
> Subject: My Vote
> 
> [12345]
> 3125
> 
> To: Alice <alice@example.org>
> From: vote-counter-responder@debian.org
> Subject: Your vote has been counted
> 
> Your ID is 3125-8888
> ---cut here---

$ echo '12345 alice 3125' | md5sum
9351a30fdcaca3caf8562172b2d02512
$ 

I was thinking the response would be:

To: Alice <alice@example.org>
From: vote-counter-responder@debian.org
Subject: Your vote has been counted

Your vote is '12345 alice 3125'
Your ID (the md5sum of your vote) is 9351a30fdcaca3caf8562172b2d02512
---cut here---

And, on the vote summary, we'd see:
12345 9351a30fdcaca3caf8562172b2d02512

And, on the voter list, we'd see:
alice

As Seth suggested, 3125 could be generated by some user program which
looks at /dev/random.

However, I don't have a substantial objection to your
proposal.

Thanks,

-- 
Raul