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      "body": "I went to an event a few nights ago where some leading BlockChain organisations were showing off the power of Distributed Ledgers and how they will transform society.  Not one of them mentioned users.\n\nThere was talk of investors, stakeholders, corporations, smart-contract-backed entities. But no users. \nNo real people who have to interact with their services.  That's par for the course at this stage of an emerging technology - everyone is running away, shiny-eyed, into the future tech utopia, without any real understanding of how normal people behave.\n\nI'm going to keep this ~~rant~~ discussion high-level. The event was under the [Chatham House Rule](https://www.chathamhouse.org/about/chatham-house-rule) - so I'll avoid getting into specifics.\n\nAn organisation wants to use \"BlockChain\" to secure elections.  Their theory is that our current electoral systems are too easily hacked and there is no way to verify or audit the votes.  I disagree with their supposition, but for the time being let's take their claims at face value.\n\nIn order to cast my vote under their proposals - I need to cryptographically sign a transaction which is then fed into a Distributed Ledger.\n\nHow do I get a public/private key-pair to allow me to do that?\n\n## Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange\n\nThe great cryptographic breakthrough of the 20th century was a way to distribute security keys without having to rely on a trusted courier.  You can [watch my short explainer video of it online](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfbjfd-R-3A).\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfbjfd-R-3A\n\nSo a user can securely generate a key and then securely share it.  How?  Most normal users **simply cannot do this**.\n\nAs soon as you put responsibility into the hands of the user, you leave them ripe for exploitation.  Recently, a website which claimed to help you generate a secure key for your cryptocurrency wallet [stole $4 million from its users](https://thatoddmailbox.github.io/2018/01/28/iotaseed.html).\n\nDo a web search for \"tax refund\" or similar and you'll find that the top adverts are for [scummy companies which offer no real value](https://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/jun/06/copycat-esta-websites-us-visitors).  How is the average user supposed to find a secure and reputable way to generate the key that they need to vote online?\n\n## The State Distributes The Keys\n\nThere is a charming <i>naïveté</i> to this.  The state currently distributes passports and voting cards - so why not cryptographic keys?\n\nThere are two fundamental problems.\n\n### Trust\nHow do I audit the votes on a BlockChain?  I can easily verify that *my* vote has been correctly recorded by *\\*waves hands\\** technology.  But that's only half the problem.\n\nHow do I know that all the other votes on the ledger are genuine?  If it is the state which generates the keys, what's to stop them from generating surplus, fraudulent keys?  If they can see who *hasn't* yet voted - they can use a copy of their key to manipulate the vote.\n\nAs we've seen, [centralised certificate issuers can be staggeringly incompetent](https://security.googleblog.com/2017/09/chromes-plan-to-distrust-symantec.html).  They issue blatantly incorrect certificates on a disturbingly regular basis.\n\nWhat happens when the organisation responsible for generating the voting keys \"accidentally\" lets one of their sub-contractors do something which calls in to question the integrity of the voting process?\n\n### Securing The Supply Chain\nBut, let's assume that through the magic of technology, we can solve this problem.  How do we get the keys to people?\n\nIf we use the postal service, there's a [strong](https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/97163982/australias-samesex-marriage-survey-corrupted-another-haul-of-votes-dumped) [risk](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11560017/Postal-voting-fraud-is-easy-electoral-commissioner-says.html) of [theft](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-england-32517842).\n\nI guess that means we have to distribute the keys electronically?\n\n#### Securing The Individual\n\nHow do I secure my voting key once I've got it?  I have a degree in computer science and spend my days working on technology. [I still don't know if I set up my YubiKey correctly](https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2017/11/a-grumpy-look-at-using-a-yubico-neo-nfc-on-ubuntu-android/).\n\nBut perhaps we can use people's phones. OK, so half the Androids in the country are running outdated software, are vulnerable to attack, and don't have a secure password on them. But... errr... 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Will it be easier than the current method?\n\nOne of the reasons why Plurality Voting (like First-Past-The-Post) is so popular is that *people understand it*.\n\nPerhaps there are forms of proportional representation which are fairer - but trying to understand how the [Condorcet method produces a winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method#Finding_the_winner) is *difficult*.\n\n## Telling a story\n\nHumans are <i>Pan narrans</i> - the storytelling ape.  And we like *simple* stories.  Goodies and baddies. Winners and losers.\n\nWhat's the story for BlockChain voting? How easy is it to explain to someone who doesn't know or care about technology?\n\nEverything has to start with the user - not with the technology.",
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