Microsoft Wants Patent For Secure On-line Voting
from the who-needs-secure-online-voting? dept
theodp writes "The USPTO has voted no on Microsoft's just-published patent application for a Method for secure on-line voting, although the software giant can appeal the decision."
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After actually reading the thing..
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by R Bernal on Friday December 30, @11:02
Microsoft??? Security patent??? HAHAHAHAHA!!! That is the funniest news I have ever heard!!
Gotta agree with you man. I wouldn't trust my vote to Microsoft; much rather spend that 15 minutes it takes to go to some elementry school ;)
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Microsoft and Voting Patent
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As opposed to the current level of fraud ...
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Talk about poor quality patents!
"A voting application on a computing device of a voter sends a challenge including data identifying and verifying the voter, the challenge is validated to ensure that the identified voter [is] allowed to vote, and a response is sent with a vote identification value identifying the voter as being activated. A ballot is then sent to the voting application and presented thereby to the voter based on which voting information is gathered from the voter. The voting application then sends a vote package with the vote identification value and the gathered voting information, and the vote package is validated to ensure that the vote identification value matches the vote identification value matches. The voting information from the vote package is then tallied."
As for the main content, this is be an utterly obvious way of using pre-existing security mechanisms to implement secure voting, albeit with mistakes such as not confirming the vote back to the voter after tallying.
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Yes, but...
Well, I said, this just shows that Microsoft will soon start to be in the e-voting business, and they will be able to show all of their code...
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