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Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key
- salawat 11mo agoCryptography: The arcane art of turning already difficult problem spaces into the same problem space + key management.
- avidiax 11mo agoI feel the big news here (to me) is that there is a practical privacy preserving verifiable cryptographic voting system.
- abstractspoon 11mo agoYou couldn't make this shit up
- throwawayqqq11 11mo agoIn 3.27e15 years you can.
- s1mplicissimus 11mo agoAs if machine based voting were not a democratic nightmare if only people didn't lose their keys. What a pile of garbage
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- N19PEDL2 11mo agoAnother way to avoid this problem is to have 4 trustees and to split the key between them using Shamir's algorithm, so that 3 trustees are enough to reconstruct the whole key.