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Cryptographers Held an Election. They Can’t Decrypt the Results. (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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So secure was the annual contest to fill three director and four officer positions that when one trustee lost his cryptographic key to unlock the results, the error made it impossible.

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[–] fatalicus@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Which is stupid, since the reason they had 3/3 was that two people could not collaborate to change the results, which they now can with 2/3.

Should have been changed to 3/5 instead.

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[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 months ago

Exactly, it's worse all around.

And it's not like it's hard to use a different configuration; the threshold and total number of keys are just parameters of the algorithm.

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