ph14nix

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   by ph14nix 10y ago

   > And the reason you can't add your digital signature to your vote is that you could then prove to someone you had voted for candidate X and collect your bribe. I was arguing against treating a blot on a paper as a certification of
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   by ph14nix 10y ago

   What fascinates me in the electronic voting is not the economical benefits of it or computers being involved, but the guarrantees provided by the cryptography. Not the paper itself, but the handritten signatures are driving me crazy. Of cou
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   by ph14nix 10y ago

   > UTF-8, for example, allows to encode the character "ä" as \xc3\xa4 OR \x61\xcc\x88. They look visually identical, yet fail any string comparison. Well-designed high-level programming language (see Perl6) compares strings depe
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   by ph14nix 10y ago

   > With tools like valgrind, address sanitizers and modern debugging toolchains, most of these issues can be caught. Most of these tools require support from an operating system. This is not the case when you do kernel programming. For so