Timeline for How might you hack this voting protocol?
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| Sep 22, 2016 at 17:43 | comment | added | Nathaniel Ford | That is how asymmetric incentives work: a clever hacker will profit from doing the harder work disproportionately more because the corrupting entity will naturally choose the cheaper, more secure hacking over the widespread, obvious and more expensive bribery. All systems are designed to 'not be hacked' and all of them eventually are. | |
| Sep 22, 2016 at 17:40 | comment | added | Aify | @NathanielFord It may be more expensive, but it's also way easier to do than trying to hack a system that's designed not to be hacked. | |
| Sep 22, 2016 at 17:34 | comment | added | Nathaniel Ford | Efficiency depends entirely on how much you're paying a party to corrupt the election some other way. If you pay a thousand people one hundred dollars (which seems low) plus the cost to "polygraph" (or whatever other equally unreliable test is used) to vote your way it's more expensive than if the hack costs fifty thousand dollars. Note that there is a history of vote buying in the US back in the day, and it didn't work out well. Also note that the larger the population of bribed voters the easier this method is to detect. | |
| Sep 22, 2016 at 17:29 | comment | added | Aify | @NathanielFord You can use any kind of lie detecting test/"insurance method" - the polygraph was just a thing I pulled out of my ass to fill the gap/show a point. Bribery is more efficient than trying to cheat the system through a different method, as you don't need everyone you've bribed to vote for you. If you bribe enough people, you'll get the results you want. | |
| Sep 22, 2016 at 16:41 | comment | added | Nathaniel Ford | Polygraphs are notoriously unreliable and, besides, the system above would allow you to confidentially connect a voter to their vote (recall that the counter is public and the vote is electronic). Still, bribery as a method of swinging the vote is fairly inefficient. | |
| Sep 22, 2016 at 16:14 | history | answered | Aify | CC BY-SA 3.0 |