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How often can you say THAT, eh?

The best part of the yearly CRYPTO conference is the Tuesday evening rump session, where I’m at right now. There was the Jean-Jacques Quisquater inimitable spoof presentation on attacking Enigma machines by putting them in the microwave, a fantastic Lessig-presentation-spoof by Hovav Shacham, and much more. It’s easy to forget that most cryptographers have a [...]

I’m off to CRYPTO, where I’ll be listening to some fun talks and presenting Helios on Tuesday.

Read a funny thing on DaringFireball: AppleInsider reports that the MobileMe web apps supposedly do use SSL, even though you don’t see “https:” URLs or the “secure” lock icon in your web browser Hmmm, sounds awfully fishy. If the page is over plain HTTP, then it will have a lot of trouble making requests over [...]

Helios Voting is taking on a life of its own, and it needs its own blog for updates and such. I’ll still mention the major milestones here, but if you’re following Helios more closely, you’ll want to subscribe. blog.heliosvoting.org

I just gave my talk at Usenix Security on Helios, my new web-based voting system that supports cryptographic auditing. Since it’s web-based, you don’t want to use this for elections where coercion is a serious concern. But if you’re running an online election for your club, software community, etc.., it’s perfect. Just go to: http://www.heliosvoting.org [...]