Re: Election status
>>"Sven" == Sven <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> writes:
Sven> Was this md5sum not supposed to be sent in the aknowledgement
``Supposed'' to be? I don't think that it was decided to
modify the vote system, no. The best I recall is some discussion last
year about secret ballot protocols, but that is as far as it went.
Sven> mail of the ballot, so it would only be comparing two md5sums,
Sven> quite easy to do. Two cut&pastes should do the job, nothing
Sven> arcane involved here ?
And, of course, you then lose the benefit of having the
md5sums, since I could slip the same md5sum to more than one
person. I guess it would still be a deterrent, since I would never
know who all did not really check the md5sum.
Is it really that hard to run md5sum? Can we really survive as
a project if the developers feel that way?
Allow me to demonstrate. (Note: since my userid is
srivasta, and if my secret token was 0123456789ABXDE, then i get:
---------------------------------------------------------
% echo "srivasta 0123456789ABXDE" | md5sum
f305c07513500e690a7f98f10c52a7fc
----------------------------------------------------------
I can even do this:
% egrep $(echo "srivasta 0123456789ABXDE" | md5sum) tally.txt
and see that my vote is valid.
How hard was that?
I guess I'll change the ack to put i a command line. I am not
going to ship the md5sum in the ack, so there.
manoj
note: anyone who cannot substitute their login if for `srivasta' above,
or interpolate their own token, is encouraged to vote again, the new
ack shall interpolate them for you.
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
1024R/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E
1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C
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