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   Tor (profile), Nov 17th, 2009 @ 1:14am

   
   

   Security vs. obscurity

   Let me quote the introduction of Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier:
   

   "If I take a letter, lock it in a safe, hide the safe somewhere in New York, then tell you to read the letter, that's not security. Thats obscurity. On the other hand, if I take a letter and lock it in a safe, and then give you the safe along with the design specifications of the safe and a hundred identical safes with their combinations so that you and the worlds best safecrackers can study the locking mechanism - and you still can't open the safe and read the letter - thats security."

   
   The E-voting industry clearly seems to favour obscurity over security. It's good to see some of their customers challenge that view.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Nov 17th, 2009 @ 2:03am

   
   

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   Harshal (profile), Nov 17th, 2009 @ 2:28am

   
   

   Re: Security vs. obscurity

   That's exactly right.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Nov 17th, 2009 @ 2:34am

   
   

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   MaGioZal, Nov 17th, 2009 @ 2:47am

   
   

   Brazilian E-Voting system

   Well, you should not consider my opinion “impartial” since I am Brazilian myself…
   
   …but anyway I think that the current Brazilian E-Voting system is one of the best in all world, miles and miles ahead of the clumsy, regionalized method of voting in the United States…

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Nov 17th, 2009 @ 3:13am

   
   

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   Anonymous Coward, Nov 17th, 2009 @ 5:06am

   
   

   What company made these machines?
   I doubt it was diebold, sequoia or es&s

    

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   Fagundes, Nov 17th, 2009 @ 5:23am

   
   

   Re: Brazilian E-Voting system

   You should not forget that Brazilian banking system compensates a check in 1 working day (very different from the Europe, which takes longs 4 day in the best cases), keeping in mind that Brazil is a wide country in geographic terms.
   
   That is why some countries in development are showing amazing things like this example about the e-voting.

    

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   Fagundes, Nov 17th, 2009 @ 5:25am

   
   

   Re:

   As far as I know, it was a Brazilian company called Procomp, but they have been purchased by Diebold (or at least they have a good slice in their shares).
   
   http://www.diebold.com.br/
   
   Cheers

    

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    Fagundes, Nov 17th, 2009 @ 5:28am

    
    

    Re: Re:

    http://www.diebold.com.br/M_Eleitoral.asp
    That is the specific page about the E-Voting system.

     

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    Anon, Nov 17th, 2009 @ 8:24am

    
    

    So how many is a Brazilian anyway?

     

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    Anonymous Coward, Nov 17th, 2009 @ 8:38am

    
    

    We need an end to end user verified voting system. Scholars and researchers with Ph.D's in cryptography have spent years working on them and now we have systems that are doable, or are at least a huge improvement over what we currently have (I vote on paper and have no way to verify or audit anything).

     

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    joão Rossi, Nov 17th, 2009 @ 9:47am

    
    

    Bogus

    The test was completely bogus, done by public employees designated by their bosses, using governments computers, having to tell govt what to do before hand, not being able to study the machines before hand!!!!!!!
    
    The Brazilian voting system SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    And yes, it is made by DIE bold

     

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    Nastybutler77 (profile), Nov 17th, 2009 @ 10:07am

    
    

    Coming soon to a commercial near you

    How long before Diebold starts touting these testing results to elections boards across the US? Not to mention useing them as a way to not have to submit to testing here. "Oh you don't need to try and crack our software; they already tried in Brazil."

     

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    Hardik Upadhyay (profile), Nov 17th, 2009 @ 10:26pm

    
    

    Hacking has always helped to enhance security

    Hacking attempts are always required for the successful testing of any system.
    
    And it will be good if the attempt is made by someone outside the system.
    
    It is a mixed feeling but in the future much more robust system should be made so that the systems are not hacked frequently.

     

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    vyvyan, Nov 18th, 2009 @ 2:47am

    
    

    maybe someone have figured out the way and is keeping mum to use it in next election. :P

     

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