Timeline for How could I make the results of a yes/no vote inaccessible unless it's unanimous in the affirmative, without a trusted third party?
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| Aug 6, 2020 at 19:29 | comment | added | Esa Jokinen | The cat votes yes for leaving this cult! | |
| Aug 5, 2020 at 12:04 | comment | added | jez | @bradbury9 They know a guy who knows a guy. You want a cat? He can get you a cat. | |
| Aug 5, 2020 at 11:43 | comment | added | bradbury9 | How many cats does the family have? The process should be repeteable | |
| Aug 3, 2020 at 22:47 | comment | added | Graham | And a tertiary voting system to decide who has to open the box, ideally with gas mask and body armour. To quote Terry Pratchett, a cat in a box has three possible states: alive, dead, and bloody furious. | |
| Aug 3, 2020 at 20:24 | comment | added | BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft | If we're going to allow "open-source devices" to not be considered "trusted third parties", then then the answer is trivial, and doesn't require killing any cats: use literally any open-source automated voting machine. But by the normal definition, all those devices (including yours) are trusted third parties. | |
| Aug 3, 2020 at 19:59 | comment | added | jez | @BlueRaja-DannyPflughoeft not in the sense the OP is worried about: (1) it is not compromised if we allow all family members examine the mechanism and procedure, to satisfy themselves that it works as intended (analogy: open-source encryption); and (2) the machine retains no information about who/how many pressed the "No" button, so cannot be compromised for witch-hunting purposes. | |
| Aug 3, 2020 at 19:43 | comment | added | BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft | This device is by definition a trusted third party | |
| Aug 3, 2020 at 19:00 | history | edited | jez | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 3, 2020 at 18:51 | comment | added | jez | @Kevin I had a whole spiel written out, about each person putting an arbitrary number of drops of ink into a jar of water, and I was about to hit submit when I realized what it was isomorphic to. | |
| Aug 3, 2020 at 18:49 | history | edited | jez | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 3, 2020 at 18:38 | comment | added | Kevin | LOL - I love how we're trying to decide which animal to kill, when you could just change it to 'spills some paint' or such. Definite +1 on the answer - this is definitely the right applicable way to solve the problem. | |
| Aug 3, 2020 at 18:17 | comment | added | Aganju | We should use a rat instead of a cat, to avoid impact to the results by cat lovers or ASPCA. | |
| Aug 3, 2020 at 17:24 | history | answered | jez | CC BY-SA 4.0 |