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The Guardian has a story detailing the firing of Christopher Krebs, who served as the director of the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa)
President Trump made the announcement on Twitter on Tuesday, saying Krebs "has been terminated" and that his recent statement defending the security of the election was "highly inaccurate".
CISA last week released a statement refuting claims of widespread voter fraud. "The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history," the statement read. "There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised."
Krebs, is a former Microsoft executive, and was appointed by President Trump after allegations of Russian interference with the 2016 election.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Friday November 20 2020, @09:54AM (3 children)
You want to be careful making such absolute blanket statements. Perfect accountability or perfect anonymity? You sure those are mutually exclusive?
One way hashes can provide both. You generate a cryptographic hash of your vote, and so do election workers. The personal info that connects you to your vote should already be hashed, before it is attached to the ballot. If your vote has been altered, the hash won't match. It's basically the same principles used in password authentication that allows system administrators to manage the system and the system to verify (or reject) a login, all without exposing the users' passwords.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday November 22 2020, @01:40AM (2 children)
The key space is too small for hashes to be worth anything. You have less than 350 million possible values. It's the same reason we don't bother upgrading the hashing algorithm for IPv4 addresses here. A GPU could get you the hash for any person in the US in under a second.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Sunday November 22 2020, @04:09AM (1 child)
> The key space is too small
That's what salt is for.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday November 22 2020, @03:01PM
Wouldn't help. Not even if every voter had their own salt. You don't need to build a rainbow table. If you have the salt you can compute all possible values of salt+value quicker than you can blink with that small a keyspace.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.