Re: [EM] proxies and confidentiality

2006-03-09 Thread Jan Kok
Selecting bottom-tier proxies by secret ballot sure seems like a messy problem. Depending on the problem definition (the requirements), I'm not confident that there is a solution. For those that want to try to find a solution, I offer the following paper as inspiration: www.votegrity.com Secret

Re: [EM] proxies and confidentiality

2006-03-09 Thread Raphael Ryan
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At 05:30 AM 3/9/2006, Raphael Ryan wrote: >>Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>[description o

Re: [EM] proxies and confidentiality

2006-03-09 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:30 AM 3/9/2006, Raphael Ryan wrote: >Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[description of standard secret-ballot procedure] > >Is this not inconsistant with the following ? > > >But with direct democracy using delegable proxy, you can have your > >cake and eat it too. If you most a

Re: [EM] proxies and confidentiality

2006-03-09 Thread Raphael Ryan
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Just to be sure, let me state more precisely what I think is a necessary >>degree of secrecy: *Nobody* but me must know whether I voted, what I >>voted, whether I named a proxy, and who the proxy is. I don't see how >>this can be done in an easy way!