Re: [Eligibility-discuss] On 3797 alternatives

[Martin Thomson <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, May 30, 2023, at 16:36, Donald Eastlake wrote:
> I disagree. First of all, you are assuming one attacker. If there is
> more than one, they interfere with each other and none can predict the
> results of some attempted manipulation. Furthermore, the attacker
> cannot practically add people, since there is no need to announce the
> list before it is closed to additional volunteers. They could possibly
> remove people by having volunteers that they would direct to decline
> to serve.

We disagree. I assume that there is a singular attacker who is able to somehow learn the list of volunteers before the deadline and can act within that time frame to add or remove volunteers.  That is perhaps stronger than what might happen in practice, but we don't get to assume a more favourable threat model, we should build to a well-defined threat model.