Invisible wrote:
> Weeeee....
> 
> http://eprint.iacr.org/2008/166.pdf
> 
> There's nothing like cryptanalysis to make you paranoid! ;-)
> 
It lead to a discussion in parliament here and a bad time for one of our 
ministers. Introduction of the country-wide OV chipcard (OV is the 
abbreviation for public transport) is postponed now.

At the last election in some cities voting was done again by paper and 
red pencil because somebody showed that you could listen to what people 
voted by putting a radio receiver close to it and a few more 
insecurities of the digital voting machines.

What these examples have in common is that they were badly designed and 
they relied on people not knowing the details as an important security 
measure. The latter is of course an absolute sin in cryptography, but 
apparently not (yet) when designing voting equipment or identification 
cards.

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