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[Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>]

On May 21, Robin Cook [rcook AT wyrms.net] wrote:
> What spell is pgpdump from as it isn't installed on my system.

The spell is pgpdump:

$ gaze what pgpdump
pgpdump:
pgpdump is a PGP packet visualizer which displays the packet format
of OpenPGP (RFC 2440 + bis) and PGP version 2 (RFC 1991).

PGP produces binary files or files encoded with ASCII armor (which
is identical to the MIME Base64 encoding). It's very hard to
understand the data structure inside this. Pgpdump visualizes the
data structure.
> 
> 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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