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Re: [openpgp] Disabling compression in OpenPGP

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> Thu, 20 March 2014 11:36 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Disabling compression in OpenPGP
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On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 23:58, jon@callas.org said:

> I'm really sorry your ballots got spoiled. But you can fix that with
> zero changes to software nor protocol.

Yep.

However, this a problem of the voting protocol.  You would run into the
same problems if you use a ZIP file with encryption or require to send
an ODF document.  Both compress stuff; even text editors may do that by
replacing runs of white space by tabs.

There are a lot of possible failure modes to be investigated which is
the reason why getting electronic voting right is so hard.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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