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Re: [openpgp] Disabling compression in OpenPGP

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> Thu, 20 March 2014 13:11 UTC

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To: Alfredo Pironti <alfredo.pironti@inria.fr>
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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Disabling compression in OpenPGP
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On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:55, alfredo.pironti@inria.fr said:

> It would be, if the voting protocol was prescribing compression, or was
> using ballots of different lengths.
  
I already mentioned that there are many factors which need to be
consider when creating a voting protocol.  All parts involved in running
the protocol need to be considered - not just the length of the ballots
and the encryption protocol.  The described fault was made possible by a
non-well defined voting protocol.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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