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You don't seem to understand, so heres a whitepaper [1] from Rop Gonggrijp on how to play chess on a Nedap voting computer. And the Nedap machines are special-b
by revelation 13y ago
You don't seem to understand, so heres a whitepaper [1] from Rop Gonggrijp on how to play chess on a Nedap voting computer. And the Nedap machines are special-built and programmed to ensure the authenticity of the votes, using anything from printers to read only memory. Not fucking Python running on a loosely secured Linux box.
[1]: http://wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl/images/9/91/Es3b-en.pdf http://wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl/images/9/91/Es3b-en...
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- revelation 13y agoDespite the halting problem being unsolvable, formal verification is a huge area in computer science. News flash: you can not formally verify some web app running on Python running on Linux, being fed with input from a gigabit link to the complete outside world. So the idea of using Python for an electric voting machine is dead from the onset, a complete no-starter. (And yes, of course computer languages are inherently more or less secure by themselves, through the simple proxy of allowing programmers to make (or prevent) severe errors. Think C and fixed-size buffers on the stack.)