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Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key

50 points| awkwardpotato | 3 months ago |arstechnica.com

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salawat|3 months ago

Cryptography: The arcane art of turning already difficult problem spaces into the same problem space + key management.

avidiax|3 months ago

I feel the big news here (to me) is that there is a practical privacy preserving verifiable cryptographic voting system.

s1mplicissimus|3 months ago

As if machine based voting were not a democratic nightmare if only people didn't lose their keys.

What a pile of garbage

N19PEDL2|3 months ago

Another way to avoid this problem is to have 4 trustees and to split the key between them using Shamir's algorithm, so that 3 trustees are enough to reconstruct the whole key.