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How does the distributed generation of unique identifiers help to keep track of who has voting rights?
by kgwgk 7y ago
How does the distributed generation of unique identifiers help to keep track of who has voting rights?
- kijin 7y agoState and/or municipal authorities could be tasked with generating identifiers and signing them cryptographically, so that any voting station can verify whether a given identifier is genuine. The federal government doesn't need to keep a central registry of all identifiers, only a list of public keys used by states and municipalities. Obviously I'm not aware of any country doing things in such a convoluted way. But if Americans really don't want there to be a central registry of everyone's identity, modern computer science and cryptography could help.
- cdash 7y agoYou expect that over a hundred years we will manage to keep all private keys used secret?