Re: Secret votes HOWTO

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

On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 07:47:41PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> 
> $ 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

oh.   that works too, since alice (the debian login) would be unique,
and be enough to prevent collisions.

but it is harder to scan for 33 numbers than (say) 8.   but other than
that, the results are the same: a unique, reporoduceable identifier that
is difficult to surreptitiously change.

-john