http://benlog.com/articles/2007/03/09/i-stand-with-avi-regarding-american-idol/ crypto applied to public policy Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:54:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://benlog.com/articles/2007/03/09/i-stand-with-avi-regarding-american-idol/#comment-16118 ben Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:17:01 +0000 http://benlog.com/articles/2007/03/09/i-stand-with-avi-regarding-american-idol/#comment-16118 Joe, I do think it would be cool, especially since this is all doable easily via homomorphic tallies. That said, you can vote multiple times on American Idol, and you never authenticate... so I'm not sure how much verifiability you would really get from this... Joe, I do think it would be cool, especially since this is all doable easily via homomorphic tallies. That said, you can vote multiple times on American Idol, and you never authenticate… so I’m not sure how much verifiability you would really get from this…

]]> http://benlog.com/articles/2007/03/09/i-stand-with-avi-regarding-american-idol/#comment-15849 joe Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:44:38 +0000 http://benlog.com/articles/2007/03/09/i-stand-with-avi-regarding-american-idol/#comment-15849 It would seem that American Idol is a great test bed for cryptographic voting, no? We wouldn't be able to do much about DoS and other voting risks similar to internet voting, but we should be able to convince them, for a modest investment in their voting infrastructure, they could "prove" that America did vote a given singer out. I could imagine, if the network is in control of the whole thing anyway for marketing/advertising purposes, that this might not fly. But if I were at VoteHere, etc. I'd be seriously thinking about how to pitch this kind of concept to the AI peeps. We need more test beds for new voting methods besides union and student elections. It would seem that American Idol is a great test bed for cryptographic voting, no? We wouldn’t be able to do much about DoS and other voting risks similar to internet voting, but we should be able to convince them, for a modest investment in their voting infrastructure, they could “prove” that America did vote a given singer out. I could imagine, if the network is in control of the whole thing anyway for marketing/advertising purposes, that this might not fly. But if I were at VoteHere, etc. I’d be seriously thinking about how to pitch this kind of concept to the AI peeps. We need more test beds for new voting methods besides union and student elections.

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