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| | Name : | Warren Smith | Organization : | N/A | Post Date : | 9/30/2005 |
| Comment : | There is a lot of mumbo jumbo about cryptography. That is a red
herring. What matters is: at any point in time a corruptor could emit the
right radio message which would cause it to transition into a new "do whatever you want" mode that officially was claimed not to exist. This mode could have been inserted secretly by a programmer. No feasible amount of testing would be able
to discover the existence of this secret mode and the fact it did not
always obey the claimed crypto protocols, because the magic "open sesame" message could be 300
random-looking bits long and depending in a secret way upon the time so
that any failure of this sort would be essentially irreproducible (since by
2.2.5.2.1b the voting machine must include a real-time clock). No amount of manual inspection of the
computer program inside the voting machine (even if it were available for
inspection) would necessarily find this trapdoor because it is well known
to be a Turing-undecidable problem to determine whether a computer program
contains such a trapdoor. See Marvin Minsky: "Finite & Infinite Machines"
for info about Turing-undecidability. Possible result: the end of democracy in the USA. | |
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