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On Wednesday 05 May 2004 11:49, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
> Nick Murtagh wrote:
> > Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
> >> The E-Voting system "can't" be verified unless access to it's
> >> source code is available.
> >
> > Even with source, how do you verify what code is actually running
> > on a given voting machine?
>> Can of worms.
>> Really... I'd want to be in a room... watching the terminal where the
> source code I just verified is compiled *or whatever... maybe it's
> interpreted* and is then physically put onto the system in question.
>
And what if the compiler/interpretor has been compromised?
Seriously - where do we stop?
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Regards,
Barry O'Donovan
http://www.ihl.ucd.ie/
Information Hiding Laboratory,
Department of Computer Science,
University College Dublin,
Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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