On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:35:31 -0800 Jonathan Lundell wrote: > At 12:28 AM -0500 2/1/07, Dave Ketchum wrote: > >>Step back, and think of the many places where we use computers BECAUSE, if >>designed and built to provide a service, they are the best way to get it >>done successfully: >> > > NIST is charged under HAVA (Help America Vote Act) with providing > technical advice. In a draft report that they recently issued, they > say: > > >>Are there ways to improve DREs so that they can be made secure and >>fully auditable? NIST and the STS do not know how to write testable >>requirements to satisfy that the software in a DRE is correct.
If they ain't that smart, nor even smart enough to hire needed smarts, this should have been admitted, to permit intelligent response. >> The >>use of COTS software in DREs causes additional problems; having, for >>example, a large opaque COTS operating system to evaluate in >>addition to the voting system software is not feasible. >> Obvious response to this is simpler: If some COTS is too complex to be testable at tolerable expense, forbid its use. > > The draft is available here: > http://vote.nist.gov/DraftWhitePaperOnSIinVVSG2007-20061120.pdf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would not want done to you. If you want peace, work for justice. ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info