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Re:DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System by thanatos_dem on Thursday March 14, 2019 @05:29PM (#19393975)
I use this premise as one of my architectural interview questions- design a voting system.

Having asked it dozens of times, I’ve come to the conclusion that I don’t trust anyone to build a voting system. I like it as a question tho, since it’s open ended enough to really let the candidate focus on the domains interesting to them; scalability, security, data modeling, whatever they want really.

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Re:DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System by tommd on Sunday March 17, 2019 @02:05PM (#19415348)
That's a huge leap from "arbitrary candidates can't give a satisfactory answer during an interview" to "I don't trust it can be done."

Do you apply the same test to cryptographic algorithms?

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