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Cryptographers Held an Election. They Can’t Decrypt the Results. (www.nytimes.com)
submitted 11 months ago by 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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[–] 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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