[CAVO] Fwd: [OVC-discuss] The GREAT Michael Shamos says Jefferson and Simons are full of it

[Brian J. Fox]

Email that I received this morning in response to a conversation between myself and Brian Behlendorf.

Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: Fred & Johanna McLain <fmclain at me.com>
> Date: July 29, 2015 at 8:51:44 PM PDT
> To: Open Voting Consortium discussion list <ovc-discuss at lists.sonic.net>
> Cc: "Brian J. Fox" <bfox at opuslogica.com>
> Subject: Re: [OVC-discuss] The GREAT Michael Shamos says Jefferson and Simons are full of it
> 
> Brian,
> 
> It can be done.  I personally worked on a system to replace UPS envelopes for software delivery to airlines to be loaded on to commercial airplanes.  I’m certain that this system is much more secure then the mailing of sealed envelopes.  It wasn’t easy to do, we had a team of about 1/2 dozen senior software developers working on it for about 1/2 dozen years.  It was however provably secure using formal methods.  Paper is good but paper backed by secure systems software is better.
> 
> http://www.google.com/patents/WO2009082592A2?cl=en <http://www.google.com/patents/WO2009082592A2?cl=en>
> 
> 	-Fred-
> 
>> On Dec 18, 2014, at 5:46 PM, Brian Behlendorf <brian at behlendorf.com <mailto:brian at behlendorf.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> There's a difference between hard and unsolveable.  You can go be Don Quixote if you like, but proving that any tech will be more trustworthy than a voter verified paper ballot is beyond my skills and definitely outside my own interest set.  I'd rather have auditable and trustworthy elections than somewhat more convenient elections.  If we want to improve the convenience of elections, span them over two days including a weekend day, offer to drive your friends to their local polling place and buy them a beer afterwards, or do any of a dozen other things that would not compromise the integrity of the election process.
>> 
>> Brian
>> 
>> On Thu, 18 Dec 2014, Brian J. Fox wrote:
>>> Hey Brian (B) -
>>> Data integrity is a hard problem.  Internet security is a hard problem. Transparency in voting is a hard problem.
>>> Are you saying that we shouldn’t solve hard problems because they are hard, or are you saying these problems are unsolvable?
>>> 
>>>      On Dec 18, 2014, at 3:22 PM, Brent Turner <brent at trealestate.net <mailto:brent at trealestate.net>> wrote:
>>> Gee Brian-  I think that's we're at now...   " Dislike " 
>>> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Brian Behlendorf <brian at behlendorf.com <mailto:brian at behlendorf.com>> wrote:
>>>      I guess once we have a generation that has lost all confidence that voting affects the way government works, they won't really care about niceties like
>>>      confidentiality or audit ability. "Like"
>>> 
>>>      Brian
>>> 
>>>      On December 18, 2014 2:44:12 PM PST, Brent Turner <brent at trealestate.net <mailto:brent at trealestate.net>> wrote:
>>>            Dr. Shamos is once again the smartest guy in the room. 
>>> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Alan Dechert <dechert at gmail.com <mailto:dechert at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>      “Eventually [a generation is] going to have the thought that it’s idiotic for me not to be able to vote using my cell phone.”
>>> 
>>>      http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/222470-states-ditch-electronic-voting-machines <http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/222470-states-ditch-electronic-voting-machines>
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