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Aug 4, 2020 at 1:24 comment added BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft @Qmppu842: The simplicity of creating the trusted third party is irrelevant. It's still a trusted third party.
Aug 3, 2020 at 21:20 comment added Kevin @Qmppu842. I mean, sort of. To be honest, if you handed me that device, my first thought would be "Wait, how do I know if the wiring is as its been described to me?" And I'd play around with it, trying out all the buttons, and be happy for a bit... until I thought "Wait, how do I know there's not a hidden Nth button that alters the behavior of the device?" I mean, if I was proficient enough, I might be able to examine the device and trace all its inner workings and have full trust in it... but apart from that, I'd have no guarantee that the end result of it was true.
Aug 3, 2020 at 20:26 comment added Qmppu842 But point is that it is so simple that it can be done in front of the voters. The voters can examine it and they could build as many as they want to to add redundancy. They could even build each their own and test them separately and press all of them at the same time.
Aug 3, 2020 at 20:24 history edited Qmppu842 CC BY-SA 4.0
Added pictures of my demonstration of such system
Aug 3, 2020 at 20:20 comment added BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft A "trusted third party" doesn't need to be a person, it can be a device we're trusting to be secure and anonymous. In this answer, that device is a custom circuit built by you.
Aug 3, 2020 at 20:01 comment added Qmppu842 @BlueRaja-DannyPflughoeft Can you explain? I fail to reason myself how or what part needs third party trust.
Aug 3, 2020 at 19:42 comment added BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft This device is by definition a trusted third party
Aug 3, 2020 at 19:12 comment added Qmppu842 I think you people are still thinking too high level. I made physical demonstration of this working with all the combinations shown for fun. Here in this gallery https://imgur.com/a/kb6XQe6 that you should be able to see, I demoed it.
Aug 3, 2020 at 16:10 comment added March Ho @DanBryant No need for even that, a fuse that blows more or less instantly when current is connected is sufficient.
Aug 3, 2020 at 15:59 comment added Dan Bryant One improvement is to combine this with a latch circuit triggered by a timer so that the results of the voting are sampled exactly once. Otherwise someone can potentially test whether they were the only dissenting vote by toggling their vote while the output is displayed.
Aug 3, 2020 at 13:46 history edited Qmppu842 CC BY-SA 4.0
Added bit more secure way to prevent physical theft of voting "machine" during that would occur during voting.
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Aug 3, 2020 at 14:54
Aug 3, 2020 at 13:33 history answered Qmppu842 CC BY-SA 4.0