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[Robin Cook <rcook AT wyrms.net>]

What spell is pgpdump from as it isn't installed on my system.

CuZnDragon
Robin Cook

On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 19:34 -0500, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> On May 21, Robin Cook [rcook AT wyrms.net] wrote:
> > Your explanation make sense but I don't see from the probst function how
> > I can verify the hash for myself.  
> 
> Pipe the message with your vote(s) through that function and it will spit
> out the hash.  This is the same hash the PL will list your vote(s) with.
> If you have mutliple votes in one email, call the function with an integer
> argument for the number of votes you have, and it will spit out that many
> hashes so you have one per vote.
> 
> This works because pgpdump -i will use the content of the signature in the
> mssage and nothing else.  And the signature is known to be the same on both
> ends, because otherwise it wouldn't be a verifiable signature in the first
> place.  Since the input is the same, the hashes are the same.
> 
> > CuZnDragon
> > Robin Cook
> > 
> > On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 10:31 -0500, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> > > On May 21, Robin Cook [rcook AT wyrms.net] wrote:
> > > > This seems to make voting more difficult and too many steps to me.
> > > 
> > > If you take a look at my clarification mail it hopefully explains that 
> > > this
> > > doesn't require you to do anything different from what you're doing now.
> > > IFF you want to verify that the vote counter isn't trying to steal the
> > > election using faked receipts you can do that, but you don't have to do
> > > that, and you had no option to do that before.
> > > 
> > > This primarily requires that the vote counter do something different, 
> > > but
> > > even that is just s/pwgen/probst/.
> > > 
> > > If you don't agree, can you elaborate?
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