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Hmm, that's an interesting point. I wonder if it could be adapted for secure online voting somehow? Perhaps we could finally have a system that's anonymous bu
by tocomment 14y ago
Hmm, that's an interesting point. I wonder if it could be adapted for secure online voting somehow? Perhaps we could finally have a system that's anonymous but prevents double voting?
- mcherm 14y agoVoting is an incredibly hard problem. For instance, your description "anonymous but prevents double voting" is ripe for fraud: I go around paying people to vote for me (or intimidating them into doing so). The secret ballot, cast in public, is resistant to that attack. More generally, one requirement of a voting system is that people trust it. Any elaborate system, no matter what it's theoretical advantages, can have a hard time meeting this hurdle because there are many people in the population who are NOT experts on cryptography and won't be comfortable with any elaborate system.