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Re:Trust in blockchain-based systems by dmitriid on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @07:54PM (#26883572)
> allowing for only the individuals involved in the transaction to know who they voted for.

So you want a backdoor, but "only for individuals who voted to know only their vote"? That... that doesn't work.

Re:Trust in blockchain-based systems by meowkit on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @09:22PM (#26884314)
Zero knowledge proofs are the solution for verifying a vote was counted correctly without revealing what the vote actually was.
Re:Trust in blockchain-based systems by dmitriid on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @05:28AM (#26887208)
This still doesn't help, does it? If I can verify that I voted, and my vote counted for something, doesn't mean that the entire vote was counted correctly, or that everyone voted as they are saying they voted, or that a "corrupt government"[1] didn't flood the vote with their own fake votes.

[1] "Corrupt government officials" is the inevitable straw man in any blockchain discussions.

Re:Trust in blockchain-based systems by dboreham on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @09:08PM (#26884217)
Do you mean doesn't work in an algorithmic sense, or in the sense that the voter can be bludgeoned into allowing someone else to use that capability?
Re:Trust in blockchain-based systems by dmitriid on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @05:23AM (#26887178)
Once you have a backdoor, everyone has the backdoor.