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in other words, someone didnt like the election results
by gattis 10mo ago
in other words, someone didnt like the election results
- tptacek 10mo ago"When you definitely know what an IACR director does."
- alfiedotwtf 10mo agoThe opposite is interesting to think about - for a commonly used threshold cipher, could you craft your part to secretly force a chosen plaintext regardless of the other parts?
- zerof1l 10mo agoDon't know why your comment is downvoted so much. Even if this was an accident, isn't it theoretically possible for one of the trustees to intentionally not provide the key to trigger the re-election? There's no guarantee that the people will vote the same. I see this as a kind of vulnerability.
- justincormack 10mo agoThey wouldnt know the result before providing the key.
- zerof1l 10mo agoIt's possible to gauge where the election is going; you don't need to see the votes. With social profiling, and people talking in general...
- speed_spread 10mo agoEven knowing that the results of a repeat election are likely to be the same, I can easily imagine someone being petty and "losing" their key to sabotage the process as a demonstration of power. It's just human nature at it's worst.
- integralid 10mo agoThis is casting accusation as a member of a community, without a shred of a proof. This is also not realistic and Occam's razor applies here strongly: why sabotage your career and frankly embarrass yourself just to make a tiny election delay, based on uncertain assumptions? This doesn't pass the sniff test. In short, I think always assuming the worst in people is not healthy and we should trust that this was indeed a honest, unfortunate mistake. This could happen to everyone.
- speed_spread 10mo agoI'm sorry. I should have made it clear that I wasn't discussing the present situation of which I know nothing about and have no reason to doubt the good faith of all involved. I was merely expanding on the hypothetical case where bad politics overcame a theoretically sound selection process.
- gattis 10mo agoyet we know the results of presidential elections before all the votes are tallied, or have a pretty sure guess
- bmacho 10mo agoI don't know if they used such a method, but it is possible to provide a proof for the key before it is actually useful. E.g. everyone provides a hash for their key first, and the actual key a some seconds later, when all the hashes for the keys have arrived. Someone is 'cheating' by claiming key loss if s/he claims the s/he lost the key during that few seconds.