[ZF] re: electronic voting application

[Chris McDonough]

There doesn't appear to be a viable easy-to-install plugin for  
Outlook that generates GPG signatures.

If we were to use GPG, it should be possible to instruct people who  
don't know how to configure their own mail clients to set up  
Thunderbird with Enigmail.  Writing the howto about this would likely  
be easier than writing a truly secure voting application.

But it might be even easier to use S/MIME because all popular clients  
have built in support for this.

http://www.marknoble.com/tutorial/smime/smime.aspx

I don't know the S/MIME trust model, though.

- C


On Apr 6, 2006, at 12:42 PM, Rob Page wrote:

> On Apr 6, 2006, at 10:38 AM, Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
> > +1
> >
> > This sounds like a sensible - yet easy to implement -
> > solution. Ans the onus to set it up is on the voters,
> > not the voting organizers. Installing a GPG/PGP
> > plugin and creating a signature (and sending it off
> > to a key server) is not a hard task at all.
>
> That last bit is the important one - whether it's easy
> or not.  IMO, if voting mechanics are going to be
> difficult that difficulty needs to be concentrated on
> the organizers.  If it's easy then we can spread the
> easiness around ;^)
>
> Also - Tres, the fingerprint is a small piece of text,
> right?
>
> --Rob
>
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