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David Honig wrote:
>
> If you give people a paper receipt with their votes on it
> (as WAS's scheme mentions) then their votes can be bought or blackmailed.
I'm unaware of how that interpretation might have arisen? I don't see
anything in the proposed text that calls for a receipt to be given to
any voter, let alone a copy of their votes?
Perhaps there is some confusion in the interoperability requirement
that electronic ballots be stored in a printable US-ASCII format.
Why? Because nobody (other than mathematicians) trusts the machines!
The threat model is (1) the machines won't work correctly, and then
(2) the clerks will try to steal the election, and nobody will be able
to tell for sure, because the machines are unreliable.
Specifying the interface also promotes competition for different
components of the systems.
The requirement arises from the need for "transparency" -- the votes
need to look like votes to humans. The auditors need to compare the
recorded votes. Everything points to a simple textual requirement.
For some odd reason, the legislative staff seems to intuitively
understand the trust paradigm that we often struggle to elucidate:
machines don't vote/spend/publish, people do.
The use of digital signatures is to ensure that the MACHINE is
authorized, not the humans. The use of human readable text is to
ensure that HUMANS can audit the result.
That means that blinded signature schemes and smartcards and fancy
unauditable and/or uninspectable equipment are not on the table.
Anyway, this thread has gone off into rampant speculation.
I asked for assistance in review of the technical cryptographic
terminology. I've received that, and I've passed the recommendations
on to the appropriate parties. Thank you very much.
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