Web of Trust itself is the problem

Jim Dever jdever at triad.rr.com
Mon Jan 11 08:49:20 CET 2010


On 1/11/2010 1:26 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote:

> I've seen computerized votes authenticated by MD5 hash... sent over
> email... in the same message as the official vote record.  As in, "the
> attachment has MD5 hash XXX, if your version hashes out to XXX then the
> vote record is authenticated."  I just about had a heart attack.  The
> voting authorities thought this was just fine, and a perfectly correct
> use of hashes.

Ekkkk...  unbelievable!

-- 
Jim



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