[ZF] re: electronic voting application

[Andreas Jung]

--On 7. April 2006 06:44:20 -0400 Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:
>
> So will we use a personal address or set up a mailbox?

It could be both. For the Plone Foundation all votes were usually sent to 
Paul. A dedicated email address voting at something would do the same job.

> Who is going
> to validate the GPG signatures and count the votes?

Someone :-)  A volunteer..Rob? *hiding*

>What is
> involved in validating the signatures?

At reasonable email client that knows about the keyring with all
voter pubkeys will tell you if an incoming signed or encrypted email is 
valid.

> Who is going to coordinate
> the necessary web of trust?

"The volunteer" would have to collect the keys from the ppl. There is of 
course a possible chance for misuse however I doubt that this is of 
theoretical nature.

 Andreas
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