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Re:In Estonian parliamentary election, 44% of the votes were... by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Monday March 11, 2019 @09:37AM (#19358838)
Except the sysadmin can update the database of valid signing keys as well?
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Re:In Estonian parliamentary election, 44% of the votes were... by tambre on Monday March 11, 2019 @10:20AM (#19359147)
Do you mean the public database of everyone's public keys? Tampering with that would get noticed really fast and anything like that would greatly erode the trust in the system and wreak havoc on the economy since most stuff is signed digitally.
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