[ZF] re: electronic voting application

[Tres Seaver]

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Stephan Richter wrote:
> On Thursday 06 April 2006 17:35, Tres Seaver wrote:
> 
>>IT is trivial in Thunderbird, using the Enigmail plugin.  Jens just
>>recently figured out how to do it with the stock Mac mail client.
>>Googling "outlook pgp" and "outlook gpg" suggests that workable
>>solutions are available for those forced to use that client, e.g.:
> 
> 
> Not everyone is using high-end clients; some use pine and other text-based 
> E-mail clients. Also, while it should be trivial to set up PGP in KDE and 
> K-mail (since the EU has sponsored its development) I have not been that 
> successful using it, but I have not tried very hard either; it's just not 
> important enough.
> 
> I think that a solution that uses our already registered SSH keys would be 
> much simpler to use. I am totally for a small telnet app.

- -1 to writing software.  If we can't use mail, then let's go with an
HTTPS-based application (preferably with browser certificates).

Many of the votes are going to involve non-developers:  can you imagine
asking one of them to generate an SSH keypair, get it uploaded into our
weirdo legacy key management system, and then handle logging in and
running a curses app?

For hardcore console mail app geeks, setting up PGP/GPG should be no
problem:

  http://www.dma.org/~tw/pine-gpg.html

  http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Mutt-GnuPG-PGP-HOWTO.html

Windows is the only problematic platform, AFAICT.  The installation
instructions for Outlook for the plugins I looked up are probably a bit
scary for non-savvy users.


Tres.
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