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Comment TCP slow start + RTT ? (Score 1) 199

They must have measured the time it takes since the browser makes the request until you get the full page back... that's why they got such low numbers. So, they ignore things like RTT and TCP Slow Start. We're not talking about sync speed here.

(No, I didn't RTFA)

Comment Re:again, for the morons (Score 1) 433

Have your read about the SSL attack vectors?

MITM - votes would be cast to multiple destinations, from multiple sources. Vote could consist of a single encrypted packet; what would the MITM do ?

decryption - even if you decrypt as many packets as available, that won't give you the keys to forge a different vote.

SSL lib bugs/design quirks - all known are now fixed

Anyway, I wasn't advocating the specific use of SSL, just private-public key cryptography in general.

The problem with elections is precisely to guarantee that each voter casts a single valid vote, and all votes were legitimately cast by a registered voter. eVoting can EASILY do this, but at a cost that society isn't ready to accept: voter anonymity is lost, since all votes can be traced back to the voter.

Comment Re:again, for the morons (Score 1, Interesting) 433

eVoting CAN and WILL happen. Massively. We just have to work out the details. One way that would work:
- every voter must have its own private key (being done in Portugal/Europe, with the new Citizen Card [I know, you people dislike ID cards])
- voters can then cast a *signed* online vote, and this vote can go to multiple institutions/instances/controllers/sites/etc. Published results should match.
- Voting can be done from home, or with the citizen card (that contains the signature) at the local voting place.

Voting could then be extended to government actions that currently skip the peoples' opinion. Eventually we would see the people voting on a daily basis on the projects they want.

Massive corruption of this system is difficult, possibly impossible, just like breaking a site's SSL.

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