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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